tender. weak.
beautiful. comely in form. Compare Genesis 39:6.
well favoured. comely in countenance.
- Jacob’s Marriage 6. רחל rāchēl , Rachel, “a ewe.” 16. לאה lê'âh , Leah, “wearied.” 24. זלפה zı̂lpâh , Zilpah, “drop?” 29....
Jacob Serves Seven Years for Rachel. Laban Substitutes Leah and Secures Fourteen Years'service in Exchange for the Two. Apart from bits of P ( Gene...
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. Leah was tender-eyed - רכות raccoth, soft, delicate, lovely. I believe the word m...
Leah was tender-eyed— Leah had tender eyes: the Hebrew word רכות ( racoth ) imports soft, tender, and delicate; and, in that sense, some of t...
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. Leah ... tender-eyed - i:e., soft blue eyes-thought a blemish; according to...
Jacob in Mesopotamia with Laban The divine care and blessing promised to Jacob at Bethel ( Genesis 28:15 ) are illustrated in the narrative of the...
Leah was tendereyed ] rather, 'weakeyed,' perhaps from ophthalmia, so common in the East. Leah means 'gazelle,' Rachel , 'ewe.'
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC ( Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29 ). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The Tôldôth in its original form gav...
Leah was tender eyed. — Leah, whose name signifies languor, weariness, had dull bleared eyes. Probably she suffered, as so many do in that hot sa...
Jacob in Laban's Home Genesis 29:1-20 Well might Jacob lift up his feet! See margin. When we are sure of God we receive strength that enables u...
Pursuing his journey after his experience at Luz, now called Beth-el, Jacob came into "the land of the children of the east." Here the next twenty ye...
How striking is that scripture, in which the Holy Ghost takes notice of this event: Hosea 12:12 . Reader! do not overlook in this precious lesson, w...
Leah [was] tender eyed ,.... Blear eyed, had a moisture in them, which made them red, and so she was not so agreeable to look at; though Onkelos ren...
Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. Ver. 17. Leah was tender-eyed. ] Purblind or squint, as one a interprets it....
JACOB MEETS RACHEL AND LABAN After many days of travel Jacob came to the land of his relatives. He could not phone to find his directions to their...
Jacob's Marriage. B. C. 1753. 15 And...
So called either upon this occasion of the meeting of divers kings here; or because king Melchizedek either had his habitation, or was much delighted...
‘And Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder was Leah and the name of the younger was Rachel. And Leah's eyes were tender, but Rachel was beau...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:15 . Because thou art my brother.] That is, my kinsman. This word, like “sister,” “son,” etc., is used with great lat...
Genesis 29:1 . Jacob went on his journey. Our version fails here to express the lively sense of the Hebrew, as in most versions. Levabit pedes;...
Jacob served seven years for Rachel Jacob’s lowly estate I. ITS EVIDENCE. 1. He is obliged to accept a position of servitude. 2. He is ob...
EXPOSITION Genesis 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob (probably at the month's end), Because thou art —literally, is it not that . thou a...
Jacob Serves Laban for Rachel
Leah was tender-eyed, that is, her eyes were weak and dull, she was no beauty in the sense of the Orient; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored,...
Rachel. Genesis 29:6-12 Genesis 29:18 Genesis 30:1 Genesis 30:2 Genesis 30:22 Genesis 35:19 Genesis 35:20 Genesis 35:24 Genesis 46:1...
17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.