Genesis 29:33

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name Simeon.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתַּ֣הַר עוֹד֮ וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּן֒ וַתֹּ֗אמֶר כִּֽי־שָׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ כִּֽי־שְׂנוּאָ֣ה אָנֹ֔כִי וַיִּתֶּן־לִ֖י גַּם־אֶת־זֶ֑ה וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ שִׁמְעֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

wa-ttahar again wa-ttēled bēn, wa-ttōʾmer because-šāmaʿ YHWH that-śənûʾāh ʾānōkî, wa-yitten-to-me also-ʾet-this-one, wa-ttiqrāʾ šəmô šimʿôn

Grammar Details

• *wa-ttahar*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she conceived
• *wa-ttēled*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she bore
• *bēn*: noun, masculine singular - son
• *wa-ttōʾmer*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she said
• *šāmaʿ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has heard
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/the LORD
• *śənûʾāh*: qal passive participle, feminine singular - hated/unloved
• *ʾānōkî*: personal pronoun, 1st common singular - I
• *wa-yitten*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he gave
• *wa-ttiqrāʾ*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she called
• *šəmô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
• *šimʿôn*: proper noun, masculine - Simeon

Word Meanings

• *śənûʾāh*: hated/unloved/less loved
• *šimʿôn*: hearing (wordplay)

Referenced Verses

• Gen 34:25 : 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.
• Gen 34:30 : 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
• Gen 35:23 : 23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;
• Gen 42:24 : 24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spake to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
• Gen 49:5-6 : 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked [ an ox.]
• Gen 30:6 : 6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
• Gen 30:8 : 8 And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
• Gen 30:18 : 18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
• Gen 30:20 : 20 And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.