Genesis 22:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפִֽילַגְשׁ֖וֹ וּשְׁמָ֣הּ רְאוּמָ֑ה וַתֵּ֤לֶד גַּם־הִוא֙ אֶת־טֶ֣בַח וְאֶת־גַּ֔חַם וְאֶת־תַּ֖חַשׁ וְאֶֽת־מַעֲכָֽה׃

Transliteration

and-pîlagšô and-šəmāh rəʾûmāh wə-tēled also-she ʾet-ṭebaḥ and-ʾet-gaḥam and-ʾet-taḥaš and-ʾet-maʿăkāh

Grammar Details

*pîlagšô*: feminine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular possessive suffix - his concubine
*šəmāh*: masculine singular noun + 3rd feminine singular possessive suffix - her name
*rəʾûmāh*: proper noun - Reumah
*wə-tēled*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she bore
*ṭebaḥ*: proper noun - Tebah
*gaḥam*: proper noun - Gaham
*taḥaš*: proper noun - Tahash
*maʿăkāh*: proper noun - Maacah

Word Meanings

*pîlagšô*: his concubine/his secondary wife
*tēled*: bore/gave birth to

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 16:3 : 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
Gen 25:6 : 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Prov 15:25 : 25 Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.

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