Genesis 21:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר פָּארָ֑ן וַתִּֽקַּֽח־ל֥וֹ אִמּ֛וֹ אִשָּׁ֖ה מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃ פ

Transliteration

And yēšeb in-midbar Pāʾrān and tiqqaḥ-for-him ʾimmô ʾiššâ from-ʾereṣ Miṣrāyim.

Grammar Details

• *wə-*: conjunction with consecutive imperfect - and (sequential action)
• *yēšeb*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - he lived/dwelt
• *bə-*: preposition - in
• *midbar*: masculine singular construct - wilderness of
• *Pāʾrān*: proper noun - Paran
• *tiqqaḥ*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - she took
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - for him
• *ʾimmô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his mother
• *ʾiššâ*: feminine singular noun - woman/wife
• *mē-*: preposition - from
• *ʾereṣ*: feminine singular construct - land of
• *Miṣrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt

Word Meanings

• *yēšeb*: lived/dwelt/settled
• *midbar*: wilderness/desert
• *tiqqaḥ*: took/got/obtained
• *ʾiššâ*: woman/wife
• *ʾereṣ* *Miṣrāyim*: land of Egypt

Referenced Verses

• Gen 24:3-4 : 3 and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
• Gen 26:34-35 : 34 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
• Gen 27:46-28:2 : 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? 1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
• Num 10:12 : 12 And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
• Num 12:16 : 16 And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
• Num 13:3 : 3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Jehovah: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
• Num 13:26 : 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
• Judg 14:2 : 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
• 1 Sam 25:1 : 1 And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
• 1 Cor 7:38 : 38 So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.