Genesis 25:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: he abode over against all his brethren.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁכְּנ֨וּ מֽ͏ֵחֲוִילָ֜ה עַד־שׁ֗וּר אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י מִצְרַ֔יִם בֹּאֲכָ֖ה אַשּׁ֑וּרָה עַל־פְּנֵ֥י כָל־אֶחָ֖יו נָפָֽל׃

Transliteration

wə-yiškənû mē-ḥăwîlāh ʿaḏ-šûr ʾăšer ʿal-pənê miṣrayim bōʾăḵāh ʾaššûrāh ʿal-pənê ḵol-ʾeḥāyw nāp̄āl

Grammar Details

• *wə-yiškənû*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they dwelt
• *mē-ḥăwîlāh*: preposition + proper noun - from Havilah
• *ʿaḏ-šûr*: preposition + proper noun - to Shur
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *ʿal-pənê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - before/in the presence of
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *bōʾăḵāh*: Qal infinitive construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - as you go toward
• *ʾaššûrāh*: proper noun + directional he - to Assyria
• *ḵol-ʾeḥāyw*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine singular suffix - all his brothers
• *nāp̄āl*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he settled/fell

Word Meanings

• *wə-yiškənû*: dwelt/settled/lived
• *ʿal-pənê*: facing/before/in the presence of
• *bōʾăḵāh*: as you go toward/in the direction of
• *nāp̄āl*: settled/fell/camped/dwelt in opposition

Referenced Verses

• Gen 16:12 : 12 And he shall be [as] a wild ass among men; his hand [shall be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
• Gen 20:1 : 1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
• Gen 21:14 : 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and [gave her] the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
• Gen 21:21 : 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
• 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is before Egypt.
• 2 Kgs 23:29 : 29 In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh-necoh] slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
• Ps 78:64 : 64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
• Isa 19:23-24 : 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
• Gen 2:11 : 11 The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
• Gen 10:7 : 7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
• Gen 10:29 : 29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
• Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
• Gen 14:10 : 10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.