Genesis 26:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

These names exhibit the Figure of speech. Polynyrmia. App-6.

Judith, She had. second name, Aholibamah (Genesis 36:5; Genesis 36:14; Genesis 36:25).

Beeri. His name was also Anah, but he had acquired the name "Beeri" (or the spring-man) from his having discovered the hot springs. See on Genesis 36:24.

Hittite. the general name. See note on 1 Kings 10:29.

Bashematti had. second name, Adah. The name Bashemath dropped in Genesis 36:2 to avoid confusion with the daughter of Ishmael. In Genesis 26: we have general history, but in Genesis 36 precise genealogy.

Genesis 26:34

34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: