Genesis 31:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

glory. Hebrew weight. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6. wealth, the effect (i.e. the burden or weight) being put for that which caused it.

Genesis 31:1

1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.