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Jacobיַעֲקֹבdweltוַיֵּשֶׁבin the landבְּאֶרֶץwhere his father had resided as an alien,מְגוּרֵי אָבִיוin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Canaan.כְּנָעַן
Genesis 37:1
Study it in the app“Jacob dwelt in the land where his father had resided as an alien, in the land of Canaan.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 37:1, word by word
- 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- dweltיֵּשֶׁבyeshev
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yeshev” appears- in the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- where his father had resided as an alienמְגוּרֵיmegure
sojourning
The place where someone lives as a foreigner, without land of his own; a temporary dwelling.
Where else “megure” appears- where his father had resided as an alienאָבִיavi
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appears- of Canaanכְּנָעַןkenaan
Canaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appears
Places in this verse
Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
The context
1 · This verse (above)
2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought bad reports about them to their father.
To study Genesis 37 in a group
1. What it says
What did the brothers do to Joseph, and what did they tell Jacob (vv. 23-33)?
2. What it means
What reasons did the brothers have for hating Joseph (vv. 3-4, 8)?
3. How I live it
How do you handle envy when someone receives more attention than you?