Genesis 38:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. ”

Genesis 38:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Family of Judah 1. עדלם ‛ ǎdûllâm , ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה chı̂yrâh Chirah, “nobility?” 2. שׁוּע shûa‛ , Shua‘, “luck, riches, cry.” 3. ער ‛ êr , ‘Er, “wa...
Genesis 38:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38. Judah and Tamar. The source is J, but not the same stratum as that to which the Joseph story belongs. There is not room for the events either before or after the events of Genesis 37, n...
Genesis 38:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. When Judah saw her. It was a great disgrace to Judah that he hastily desired intercourse with an unknown woman. He was now old; and therefore age alone, even in a lascivious man, ought to...
Genesis 38:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. Thought her to be a harlot - See the original of this term, Genesis 34:31 (note). The Hebrew is זונה zonah, a...
Genesis 38:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot. Such a character as that which Tamar impersonated was...
Genesis 38:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The History of Judah The sins recorded in this chapter testify eloquently to the great need the world had of the Greatest of the descendants of Judah, who came to teach the virtue of purity and th...
Genesis 38:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Because she had covered her face. — The Jewish commentators all agree that this was not the custom of harlots; and as Judah, in Genesis 38:21 , calls her kedeshah, one consecrated, he probably t...
Genesis 38:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The sad and tragic story of Judah's corruption recorded here needs very little comment. It carries its own lessons of the frailty of human nature and of the far-reaching effects of sin. However, pla...
Genesis 38:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Peter describes this lust, in strong expressions, 2 Peter 2:14 .
Genesis 38:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot ,.... By her posture and the place she was in: because she had covered her face ; with her veil, that he did not know her; for this is not give...
Genesis 38:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face. Ver. 15. He thought her to be an harlot. ] Because she sat in an open place: first, In bivio, saith Junius...
Genesis 38:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The story of Joseph is interrupted in this chapter to expose the shamefulness of an important part of Judah's history. We have seen that Judah took the lead in selling Joseph as a slave. In fact, in...
Genesis 38:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13 And it...
Genesis 38:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And was doubtless careful not to discover herself by her voice.
Genesis 38:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘When Judah saw her he thought her to be a prostitute for she had covered her face.' Here the common word for prostitute is used (zonot) but in Genesis 38:21 the word is kedesha, a ‘holy one', on...
Genesis 38:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 38:1 . Turned in.] (Heb.) “And he pitched,” i.e., his tent. He came to dwell in the near neighbourhood of a man belonging to the small kingdom of Adullam ( Joshua 12:...
Genesis 38:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 38:1 . At that time. All the events of this chapter could not happen in the twenty-two years from the selling of Joseph, to Israel's going down into Egypt; but according to Eben Ezra, as q...
Genesis 38:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Tamar Lessons 1. Sinful hearts when they suffer from God’s hand are apt to vent it upon creatures. 2. Carnal relations grow quickly weary of showing kindness when their aims are crossed by...
Genesis 38:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 38:1 And it came to pass . The present chapter appears to interrupt the continuity of the narrative of Joseph's history. Partly on this account, and partly because the n...
Genesis 38:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judah Becomes Guilty of Incest
Genesis 38:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

harlot. Genesis 34:31 Leviticus 19:29 Leviticus 21:14 Numbers 25:1 Numbers 25:6 Deuteronomy 23:18 Judges 11:1 Judges 16:1 Judges 19:2 Judges 19:25 1 Kings 3:16 Proverbs 2:18...

Genesis 38:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 38:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 38:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 38:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 38:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 38:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 38:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 38:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 38:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 38:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 38:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge