Genesis 24:63 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

meditate. Refers back to the historical context, Genesis 23:19, the death and burial of Sarah, his mother. What follows this digression (of which Isaac as yet knew nothing) in Genesis 24:1-67 shows that Isaac went out, not to "meditate", or "to pray" (Authorized Version margin), or "take. walk" (Syriac), or "muster the flocks" (Gesenius), but to mourn. This is the meaning of the Hebrew suach. in Psalms 44:25.Lamentations 3:20.

Genesis 24:63

63 And Isaac went out to meditated in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.