Genesis 24:11

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

He had the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּבְרֵ֧ךְ הַגְּמַלִּ֛ים מִח֥וּץ לָעִ֖יר אֶל־בְּאֵ֣ר הַמָּ֑יִם לְעֵ֣ת עֶ֔רֶב לְעֵ֖ת צֵ֥את הַשֹּׁאֲבֹֽת׃

Transliteration

wayyaḇrēḵ haggəmallîm miḥûṣ lāʿîr ʾel-bəʾēr hammāyim ləʿēṯ ʿereḇ ləʿēṯ ṣēʾṯ haššōʾăḇōṯ

Grammar Details

• *wayyaḇrēḵ*: Hiphil imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and he made kneel
• *haggəmallîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the camels
• *miḥûṣ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - outside
• *lāʿîr*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - to the city
• *ʾel-*: preposition - at/by
• *bəʾēr*: noun, feminine singular construct - well of
• *hammāyim*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the water
• *ləʿēṯ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - at time of
• *ʿereḇ*: noun, masculine singular - evening
• *ṣēʾṯ*: Qal infinitive construct - going out of
• *haššōʾăḇōṯ*: definite article + Qal participle, feminine plural - the women who draw water

Word Meanings

• *wayyaḇrēḵ*: made kneel/caused to kneel down/made rest
• *miḥûṣ* *lāʿîr*: outside the city/outside of the town
• *ləʿēṯ* *ʿereḇ*: at evening time/at dusk
• *ləʿēṯ* *ṣēʾṯ* *haššōʾăḇōṯ*: at the time when women who draw water come out/at the time of day when women go to draw water

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And made his camels to lye doune with out the cytie by a wels syde of water at euen: aboute the tyme that women come out to drawe water

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Then let he the Camels lye downe without before the cite besyde a well of water in the euenynge, aboute the tyme that the wemen vsed to go forth, and to drawe water.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And he made his camels to lye downe without the citie by a well of water, at euentide about the time that the women come out to draw water.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And made his Camelles to lye downe without the citie by a welles side of water at euen, about the time that women come out to drawe water.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, [even] the time that women go out to draw [water].

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and he causeth the camels to kneel at the outside of the city, at the well of water, at even-time, at the time of the coming out of the women who draw water.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

• World English Bible (2000)

  He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 9:11 : 11 As they were climbing the hill to the town, they met young women coming out to draw water, and they asked them, "Is the seer here?"
• Exod 2:16 : 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
• John 4:7 : 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
• Prov 12:10 : 10 The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
• Gen 24:13-20 : 13 "See, I am standing here by the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. 14 May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." 15 Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. 16 The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again. 17 The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar." 18 "Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink. 19 After she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink." 20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.
• Gen 33:13-14 : 13 But Jacob replied, 'My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds that are nursing are my responsibility. If they are driven hard even for one day, all the flocks will die.' 14 'Let my lord go ahead of his servant; I will move at a gentle pace as the livestock and children are able to go until I come to my lord in Seir.'