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Allוְאֶת כָּלtheir wealth,חֵילָםallוְאֶת כָּלtheir little onesטַפָּםand their wivesוְאֶת נְשֵׁיהֶםthey took captiveשָׁבוּand plundered,וַיָּבֹזּוּandוְallאֵת כָּלthatאֲשֶׁרwas in the house.בַּבָּיִת
Genesis 34:29
Study it in the app“All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives they took captive and plundered, and all that was in the house.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 34:29, word by word
- their wealthחֵילָchela
wealth
The goods and wealth someone gathers.
Where else “chela” appears- their little onesטַפָּtapa
little ones
Little ones: the children of a family.
Where else “tapa” appears- and their wivesנְשֵׁיneshe
wife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “neshe” appears- they took captiveשָׁבוּshavu
take captive
Take captive, carry off as prisoners in war.
Where else “shavu” appears- and plunderedיָּבֹזּוּyavozu
plunder
Plunder, take spoil.
Where else “yavozu” appears- was in the houseבָּיִתbayit
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bayit” appears
The context
28Their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field, they took.
29 · This verse (above)
30Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I have few men; if they gather against me and strike me, I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
To study Genesis 34 in a group
1. What it says
What did Simeon and Levi do after what happened to Dinah (vv. 25-26)?
2. What it means
Why was Jacob upset with them, and what did his sons answer (vv. 30-31)?
3. How I live it
How can you respond to an injustice without paying back harm?