Genesis 31:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּבְרַ֥ח הוּא֙ וְכָל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֔וֹ וַיָּ֖קָם וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר אֶת־הַנָּהָ֑ר וַיָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת־פָּנָ֖יו הַ֥ר הַגִּלְעָֽד׃

Transliteration

wa-yibraḥ he wĕ-kol-ʾăšer-to him, wa-yāqām wa-yaʿăbōr ʾet-the-nāhār, wa-yāśem ʾet-pānāyw har the-Gilʿād.

Grammar Details

• *wa-yibraḥ*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he fled
• *wĕ-kol*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and all
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - that/which
• *wa-yāqām*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he arose
• *wa-yaʿăbōr*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he crossed over
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *nāhār*: common noun, masculine singular with definite article - the river
• *wa-yāśem*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he set/directed
• *pānāyw*: common noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his face
• *har*: common noun, masculine singular construct - mountain/hill of
• *Gilʿād*: proper noun with definite article - Gilead

Word Meanings

• *nāhār*: river/stream (likely the Euphrates)
• *śîm* *pānāyw*: set his face/directed himself toward/turned toward
• *wa-yāqām*: arose/got up/set out

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 12:17 : 17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
• Jer 50:5 : 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Luke 9:51-53 : 51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
• Gen 2:14 : 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
• Gen 15:18 : 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Gen 31:23 : 23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
• Gen 37:25 : 25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
• Gen 46:28 : 28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
• Num 24:1 : 1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
• Num 32:1 : 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
• Deut 3:12 : 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
• Josh 13:8-9 : 8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; 9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
• Josh 24:2-3 : 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
• Judg 10:18 : 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.