Genesis 29:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּבֹא֙ גַּ֣ם אֶל־רָחֵ֔ל וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב גַּֽם־אֶת־רָחֵ֖ל מִלֵּאָ֑ה וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ד עִמּ֔וֹ ע֖וֹד שֶֽׁבַע־שָׁנִ֥ים אֲחֵרֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

wa-yābōʾ also to-rāḥēl, wa-yeʾĕhab also-ʾet-rāḥēl more-than-lēʾāh, wa-yaʿăbōd with-him still šebaʿ-šānîm ʾăḥērôt

Grammar Details

• *wa-yābōʾ*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he went in
• *rāḥēl*: proper noun, feminine - Rachel
• *wa-yeʾĕhab*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he loved
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *lēʾāh*: proper noun, feminine - Leah
• *wa-yaʿăbōd*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he served
• *šebaʿ*: numeral, masculine - seven
• *šānîm*: noun, feminine plural - years
• *ʾăḥērôt*: adjective, feminine plural - other

Word Meanings

• *wa-yābōʾ* to-*rāḥēl*: went in to Rachel/was intimate with Rachel
• *wa-yaʿăbōd*: served/worked for

Referenced Verses

• Gen 31:41 : 41 These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
• Gen 29:18 : 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
• Gen 29:20 : 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
• Gen 29:31 : 31 And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
• Gen 30:25-26 : 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.
• Gen 31:15 : 15 Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
• Gen 44:20 : 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him.
• Gen 44:27 : 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
• Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;
• 1 Sam 18:17-27 : 17 And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight Jehovah's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. 18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king? 19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife. 20 And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a second time. 22 And Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law. 23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. 25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired; 27 and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
• Hos 12:12 : 12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
• Matt 6:24 : 24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
• Matt 10:37 : 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• John 12:25 : 25 He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.