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So the giftוַ הַמִּנְחָהpassed onתַּעֲבֹרahead of him,עַל פָּנָיוwhile heוְהוּאspent the nightלָןthatהַהוּאnightבַּלַּיְלָהin the camp.בַּמַּחֲנֶה
Genesis 32:21
Study it in the app“So the gift passed on ahead of him, while he spent the night that night in the camp.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 32:21, word by word
- So the giftמִּנְחָהmincha
gift
A gift for an important person.
Where else “mincha” appears- passed onתַּעֲבֹרtaavor
pass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “taavor” appears- ahead of himפָּנָיpanay
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “panay” appears- spent the nightלָןlan
spend the night
To stay in a place through the night, to sleep or to keep watch.
Where else “lan” appears- nightלַּיְלָהlayla
night
Night.
Where else “layla” appears- in the campמַּחֲנֶהmachane
camp
A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
Where else “machane” appears
The context
20And you shall say, ‘Also, look, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he said to himself, “I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”
21 · This verse (above)
22He rose that night and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
To study Genesis 32 in a group
1. What it says
What did Jacob do before meeting Esau, and what happened to him at the Jabbok (vv. 7-24)?
2. What it means
What is the meaning of Jacob receiving the name Israel (v. 28)?
3. How I live it
What fear can you bring honestly to Elohim in prayer today?