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and that Jacobיַעֲקֹבhad listenedוַיִּשְׁמַעto his fatherאֶל אָבִיוand to his motherוְאֶל אִמּוֹand had goneוַיֵּלֶךְto Paddan-aram.פַּדֶּנָה אֲרָם
Genesis 28:7
Study it in the app“and that Jacob had listened to his father and to his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 28:7, word by word
- and that Jacobיַעֲקֹבyaakov
Jacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appears- had listenedיִּשְׁמַעyishma
obey
To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.
Where else “yishma” appears- to his fatherאָבִיavi
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appears- and to his motherאִמּim
mother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “im” appears- and had goneיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- to Paddan-aramפַּדֶּנָpadena
Paddan-aram
Paddan-aram, the plain of Aram in northern Mesopotamia, where Rebekah's family lived.
Where else “padena” appears
The context
6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
7 · This verse (above)
8Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing in the eyes of Isaac his father.
To study Genesis 28 in a group
1. What it says
What did Jacob dream at Bethel, and what did YHWH say to him (vv. 12-15)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that Elohim tells Jacob, “I am with you and will keep you,” in his flight (v. 15)?
3. How I live it
In what difficult place in your life do you need to remember that Elohim is with you?