Study it in the app“When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.”
When the inhabitantsיוֹשֵׁבof the land,הָאָרֶץthe Canaanites,הַכְּנַעֲנִיsawוַיַּרְאthe mourningאֶת הָאֵבֶלat the threshing floorבְּגֹרֶןof Atad,הָאָטָדthey said,וַיֹּאמְרוּ“Thisזֶהis a solemnכָּבֵדmourningאֵבֶלfor the Egyptians.”לְמִצְרָיִםThereforeעַל כֵּןits nameשְׁמָהּwas calledקָרָאAbel-mizraim,אָבֵל מִצְרַיִםwhich isאֲשֶׁרbeyondבְּעֵבֶרthe Jordan.הַיַּרְדֵּן
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshev” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsCanaanite
Someone from Canaan, before Israel.
Where else “kenaani” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “yar” appearsmourning
Mourning, grief for one who has died.
Where else “evel” appearsthreshing floor
Threshing floor: flat ground where grain is threshed; also any open, level place.
Where else “goren” appearsAtad; thornbush
Thornbush, bramble; Atad, the name of a place.
Where else “haatad” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearssevere
Hard and severe, difficult to bear: a terrible famine.
Where else “kaved” appearsEgyptian
Egyptian.
Where else “mitsrayim” appearsname
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shema” appearsname
To give someone a name.
Where else “kara” appearsAbel-mizraim
Abel-mizraim, a place name that sounds like "mourning of Egypt".
Where else “avel” appearsbeyond
Past the river, especially the Jordan.
Where else “ever” appearsJordan
See it on the mapWhere else “yarden” appears“Abel-mizraim” sounds like “mourning of Egypt” (evel, “mourning”).
Jordan
Today: Jordan River: Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Dead Sea
Israel's main river; it flows from Mount Hermon in the north, through the Sea of Galilee, to the Dead Sea.
Israel crossed it on dry ground to enter the promised land (Josh 3:17). Naaman was healed in it (2 Kgs 5:14), and Jesus was immersed in it (Matt 3:13).
10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a great and very solemn lamentation; and he observed a mourning of seven days for his father.
11 · This verse (above)
12His sons did for him just as he had commanded them;
1. What it says
What did Joseph say to his brothers when they feared he would take revenge (vv. 15-21)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that they planned evil against him, but Elohim planned it for good (v. 20)?
3. How I live it
Whom do you need to forgive or ask forgiveness from, and what step can you take?
