Genesis 27:46

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר רִבְקָה֙ אֶל־יִצְחָ֔ק קַ֣צְתִּי בְחַיַּ֔י מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנ֣וֹת חֵ֑ת אִם־לֹקֵ֣חַ יַ֠עֲקֹב אִשָּׁ֨ה מִבְּנֽוֹת־חֵ֤ת כָּאֵ֙לֶּה֙ מִבְּנ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ לָ֥מָּה לִּ֖י חַיִּֽים׃

Transliteration

wa-tōʾmer riḇqāh ʾel-yiṣḥāq qaṣtî in-ḥayyay from-pənê bənôt ḥēt if-lōqēaḥ yaʿăqōḇ ʾiššāh from-bənôt-ḥēt like-ʾēlleh from-bənôt hā-ʾāreṣ to-why to-me ḥayyîm

Grammar Details

*wa-tōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - and said
*riḇqāh*: proper noun, feminine singular - Rebekah
*ʾel-yiṣḥāq*: preposition + proper noun, masculine singular - to Isaac
*qaṣtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I am weary/disgusted
*ḥayyay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my life
*pənê*: noun, common plural construct - face of/because of
*bənôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - daughters of
*ḥēt*: proper noun - Heth
*lōqēaḥ*: qal participle masculine singular - taking
*yaʿăqōḇ*: proper noun, masculine singular - Jacob
*ʾiššāh*: noun, feminine singular - woman/wife
*bənôt-ḥēt*: noun, feminine plural construct + proper noun - daughters of Heth
*ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun, common plural - these
*hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land/earth
*ḥayyîm*: noun, masculine plural - life

Word Meanings

*qaṣtî*: I am weary/I am disgusted/I loathe
*ḥayyay*: my life/my existence
*pənê*: face of/because of/presence of
*bənôt*: daughters of/women of
*lōqēaḥ*: taking/marrying
*ʾiššāh*: woman/wife
*ʾēlleh*: these/such/like these
*hā-ʾāreṣ*: the land/the earth/the country
*ḥayyîm*: life/living

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 24:3 : 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Gen 26:34-35 : 34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Gen 28:8 : 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Gen 34:1-2 : 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Num 11:15 : 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:9 : 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

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