Study it in the app“The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.””
The messengersהַמַּלְאָכִיםreturnedוַיָּשֻׁבוּto Jacob,אֶל יַעֲקֹבsaying,לֵאמֹר“We cameבָּאנוּto your brother,אֶל אָחִיךָto Esau,אֶל עֵשָׂוand heוְis alsoגַםcomingהֹלֵךְto meet you,לִקְרָאתְךָand fourוְאַרְבַּעhundredמֵאוֹתmenאִישׁare with him.”עִמּוֹ
messenger
Someone sent on an errand.
Where else “malachim” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashuvu” appearsJacob
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” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “banu” appearsbrother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “achi” appearsEsau
Esau, the elder son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob; also called Edom, father of the Edomites. The name also stands for his descendants.
Where else “esav” appearsgo
To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
Where else “holech” appearsmeet
To go out to greet someone who arrives, in order to receive him.
Where else “kerat” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arba” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appears5I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male slaves, and slave women; and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.’”
6 · This verse (above)
7Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, the cattle, and the camels, into two camps.
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?
