Genesis 29

^I “Jacob” = Yaaqob. From the same as aqeb (heel, hind part, hoof, rear guard of an army, one who lies in wait, usurper). This is Isaac’s son and his descendants. The name means heel-catcher or supplanter.
^II “went” = nasa. This is to lift in a broad sense, literally and figuratively. So it could be to carry, take, or arise. It could also be bring forth, advance, accept.
^III “journey” = regel. This is foot, endurance, or journey. It is a foot as the means of walking and so it implies a step or a greater journey. It can be used euphemistically for private parts.

^IV “came” = halak. This is go, come, walk. It is walk literally and figuratively and includes people and animals. It can be used figuratively for one’s moral life – how we walk according to God’s way or against it. It can also refer to the walk of life as in the course one’s life takes, the choices we make, etc.
^V “land” = erets. Root may mean to be firm. This is earth, ground, field land, or country.
^VI “people” = ben. From banah (to build or obtain children). This is son, age, child. It is son in a literal or figurative sense.
^VII “east” = qedem. Perhaps from qadam (to come in front or be in front; to meet, anticipate, confront, receive, or rise; sometimes to meet for help). This is front, formerly, before, east, eternal, everlasting, antiquity.

^VIII “looked” = raah. This is to see in a literal or figurative sense so stare, advise, think, view.
^IX “saw” = hinneh. From hen (lo! Behold! If, though; an expression of surprise). This is to draw attention, show suddenness or surprise, or to emphasize the importance of the coming statement. See! Lo! Behold!
^X “well” = beer. From baar (to make plain; to dig; can also mean to engrave or figuratively to explain). This is a well or pit.
^XI “field” = sadeh. This is literally field, ground, soil, or land. It can be used to mean wild like a wild animal.

^XII {untranslated} = hinneh. Same as “saw” in v2. See note IX above.
^XIII “three” = shalosh. This is three, fork, three times.
^XIV “flocks” = eder. From adar (fail, missing) OR from adar (to dig, help, keep rank; properly, to muster troops as for battle; to miss or lack since you can see who is missing following muster; to arrange like a vineyard and so to hoe). This is arrangement – of animals, a flock or herd.
^XV “sheep” = tson. This is a flock of sheep and goats.
^XVI “lying” = rabats. This is crouched like an animal, lie down, lie stretch out, rest, sit, brood, lurk.
^XVII “watered” = shaqah. This is to give water to, to cause to drink – to irrigate, drown. It can be used for watering plants or giving water to flocks.

^XVIII “stone” = eben. This is a stone, weight, or mason. It is part of the word “Ebenezer.”
^XIX “mouth” = peh. This is mouth in a literal or figurative sense. So, more literally, it can be beak or jaws. More figuratively, it refers to speech, commands, or promises.
^XX “large” = gadol. From gadal (to grow up, become great, become wealthy – to advance. The root meaning may be to twist in the sense of the process of growing). This is great, high, bigger, noble, old, marvelous. It can also refer to someone who is powerful or distinguished.

^XXI “gathered” = asaph. This is to gather, assemble, or bring. It can also mean to take away, destroy, or remove.
^XXII “roll” = galal. 18x in OT. This is to roll, roll away, wallow, commit, remove. It is rolling in a literal or figurative sense.
^XXIII “put…back” = shub. To turn back, return, turn away – literally or figuratively. Doesn’t necessarily imply going back to where you started from. This is also the root verb for the Hebrew word for repentance “teshubah.”
^XXIV “place” = maqom. From qum(to arise, stand, accomplish, establish, abide; rising against, getting up after being sick or asleep, arising from one state to another, becoming powerful, or rising for action; standing in a figurative sense). This is a standing, which is to say a spot or space a place. It can also refer to a locality or a physical/mental condition. HaMaqom is also a Jewish name for God – the place, i.e. the Omnipresent One.
^XXV “brothers” = ach. This is brother, kindred, another, other, like. It is literally brother, but it can also be someone who is similar, resembling, or related to.
^XXVI “Haran” = Charan. 12x in OT. From Assyrian arranu (road, crossroads, junction of trade routes) OR from charar (to be scorched, burn, glow, dry up; figuratively, to show passion). This is Haran, meaning crossroads. It is also a proper name meaning parched.

^XXVII “know” = yada. This is to know, acknowledge, advise, answer, be aware, be acquainted with. Properly, this is to figure something out by seeing. It includes ideas of observation, recognition, and care about something. It can be used causatively for instruction, designation, and punishment.
^XXVIII “Laban” = Laban. From the same as laban (white); from laban (to be white or make a brick). This is Laban, meaning white.
^XXIX “son” = ben. Same as “people” in v1. See note VI above.
^XXX “Nahor” = Nachor. 18x in OT. From the same as nachar (nostril or snorting; root means to snort or snore). This is Nachor or Nahor, meaning “snorer.”
^XXXI “do” = yada. Same as “know” in v5. See note XXVII above.

^XXXII “well” = shalom. From shalam (to be complete or sound; to have safety mentally, physically, or extending to one’s estate; so, if these things are safe and complete, the implication is that one would be friendly; and, if being friendly, one would make amends and that friendship would be reciprocated). This is completeness, soundness, welfare, favor, friend, good health. It is to be safe and figuratively well, happy, at peace, friendly. Abstractly, it includes the ideas of welfare and prosperity (not in excessive wealth, but in having enough).
^XXXIII “yes” = shalom. Same as “well” in v6. See note XXXII above.
^XXXIV “here” = hinneh. Same as “saw” in v2. See note IX above.
^XXXV “daughter” = bat. Related to “people” in v1. From ben (see note VI above). This is daughter in a literal or figurative sense.
^XXXVI “Rachel” = Rachel. From the same as rachel (a ewe, sheep). Its root may refer to travelling. This is Rachel, meaning “ewe.”
^XXXVII “coming” = bo. This is to enter, come in, advance, fulfill, bring offerings, enter to worship, attack. It can also have a sexual connotation.

^XXXVIII “look” = hen. Related to “saw” in v2. See note IX above.
^XXXIX “broad” = gadol. Same as “large” in v2. See note XX above.
^XL “daylight” = yom. Root may mean being hot. This is the day in a literal or figurative sense. It can also mean birth, age, daylight, continually or other references to time.
^XLI “time” = eth. Probably from anah (to answer, sing, announce); from ad (forever, all, old); from adah (to pass on, advance, decorate oneself). This is a period or season. It can also mean whenever or continually.
^XLII “animals” = miqneh. From qahah (to get, acquire, purchase, move to jealousy, buyer, keep cattle). This is something that is bought, which implies property or possession. However, it is generally used of livestock – cattle, flock, herds.
^XLIII “pasture” = ra’ah. This is to tend a flock, pasture, or graze. It can mean to rule or to associate with someone. Figuratively, it can be ruler or teacher.

^XLIV “cannot” = lo + yakol. Yakol is to be able, endure, overcome, prevail.
^XLV “speaking” = dabar. This is generally to speak, answer, declare, or command. It might mean to arrange and so to speak in a figurative sense as arranging words.
^XLVI “father’s” = ab. This is father, chief, or ancestor. It is father in a literal or figurative sense.
^XLVII “kept” = ra’ah. Same as “pasture” in v7. See note XLIII above.

^XLVIII {untranslated} = hayah. This is to be or become, to happen.
^XLIX “mother’s” = em. This is a mother as binding a family together or a breeding female animal. It could be mother in a literal or figurative sense.
^L “went up” = nagash. This is to draw, bring, or come near. It is approaching for any reason – as an attack on an enemy, in order to worship, to make an argument. It can also be used as a euphemism for sex.

^LI “kissed” = nashaq. This is to kiss in a literal or figurative sense. It can mean to touch, rule, or equip with weapons.
^LII {untranslated} = nasa + et + qol. Literally “lifted up his voice.” Nasa is the same as “went” in v1. See note II above. Qol is a sound, used often for human voices. Also used when God speaks or angels, animals or instruments. It can be a cry or a noise, thunder or earthquakes and so on.
^LIII “wept” = bakah. This is to weep, complain, or lament.

^LIV “told” = nagad. This is to declare, make conspicuous, stand in front, manifest, predict, explain.
^LV “kinsman” = ach. Same as “brothers” in v4. See note XXV above.
^LVI “Rebekah’s” = Ribqah. From the same as marbeq (fattened, a stall used for housing cattle; root may mean to tie up). This is Rebekah, perhaps meaning tied up or secured. See https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Rebekah.html#.Xu5ad0VKhPY
^LVII “ran” = ruts. This is to run or rush, divide quickly, bring swiftly. It can also refer to a footman or guard.

^LVIII {untranslated} = hayah. Same as {untranslated} in v10. See note XLVIII above.
^LIX “heard” = shama. This is to hear, call, consent, or consider. It implies listening intelligently, giving attention, and, because of these two factors, obedience and action are often implied.
^LX “news” = shema. Related to “heard” in v13. 18x in OT. From shama (see note LIX above). This is a report, rumor, fame, sound, audience, or speech.
^LXI “sister’s” = achot. Related to “brothers” in v4. From the same as ach (see note XXV above). This is sister in a literal or figurative sense. It can also mean another or together.
^LXII “meet” = qirah. From the same as qara (to happen, meet, bring about). This is any kind of encounter, whether peaceful, hostile, or incidental. It can also mean help or seek.

^LXIII “embraced” = chabaq. 13x in OT. This is to embrace, clasp one’s hands, or cling.
^LXIV “brought” = bo. Same as “coming” in v6. See note XXXVII above.
^LXV “house” = bayit. Related to “people” in v1 & “daughter” in v6. Probably from banah (see note VI above). This is house, court, family, palace, temple.
^LXVI “told” = saphar. From sepher (writing, document, book, evidence). This is properly to tally or record something. It can be enumerate, recount, number, celebrate, or declare.
^LXVII “things” = dabar. Related to “speaking” in v9. From dabar (see note XLV above). This is speech, a word, a matter, an affair, charge, command, message, promise, purpose, report, request. It is a word, which implies things that are spoken of in a wide sense.

^LXVIII “bone” = etsem. From atsam (vast, numerous, strong; to close one’s eyes, to make powerful; to break bones). This is self, life, strength, bone, or substance.
^LXIX “flesh” = basar. From basar (being a messenger, publish, carry preach; properly, this is being fresh, rosy or cheerful as one bearing news). This is flesh, the body, fat, skin, self, nakedness, humankind, or kin. It can also refer to private parts.
^LXX “stayed” = yashab. This is to sit and so to remain and so to dwell. It is sitting for any reason – as a judge, in order to ambush, or just sitting quietly. Causatively, this can mean settling or marrying. This can also mean continue, endure, or establish.
^LXXI “month” = chodesh. From chadash (to renew, repair). This refers to a new moon. It can also mean monthly.
^LXXII {untranslated} = yom. Same as “daylight” in v7. See note XL above.

^LXXIII “serve” = abad. This is to work, serve, or compel. It can describe any kind of work or service (including religious devotion).  Also, till or cultivate. Used causatively, it can mean to enslave or keep in bondage.
^LXXIV “nothing” = chinnam. From chen (grace, favor, kindness, beauty, precious); from chanan (beseech, show favor, be gracious; properly, to bend in kindness to someone with less status). This is out of favor, so it can mean without cost, without payment, nothing, vain, or useless.
^LXXV “wages” = maskoreth. 4x in OT – 3x in Genesis & 1x in Ruth. From sakar (to hire, reward, earn). This is wages or reward.

^LXXVI “two” = shenayim. From sheni (double, again, another, second); from shanah (to fold, repeat, double, alter, or disguise). This is two, both, second, couple.
^LXXVII “name” = shem. May be from sum (to put, place, set). This is name, fame, renown. A name was thought to indicate something essential about a person – something about their individuality. So, this word can also mean honor, authority, or character.
^LXXVIII “elder” = gadol. Same as “large” in v2. See note XX above.
^LXXIX “Leah” = Leah. From laah (to be weary or exhausted, parched, faint, or tired; to be impatient or have a hard time; figuratively, being grieved or disgusted). This is Leah, meaning “weary” or “wild cow.” See https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Leah.html
^LXXX “younger” = qatan. From quwt (grieved, cut off, to detest). This is least, small, young, little one. It is literally smaller whether in amount or size. Figuratively it is smaller in the sense of younger or less important.

^LXXXI “eyes” = ayin. This is eye in a literal or figurative sense so eye, appearance, favor, or a fountain (the eye of the landscape).
^LXXXII “lovely” = rak. 16x in OT. From rakak (to be tender, soft, faint, weak; to soften or mollify). This is tender in a literal or figurative sense. It could be delicate, gentle, inexperienced, refined, soft, or weak.
^LXXXIII “was” = hayah. Same as {untranslated} in v10. See note XLVIII above.
^LXXXIV “graceful and beautiful” = yapheh + toar + yapheh + mareh. Literally “beautiful of for and beautiful of appearance.” Yapheh is from yaphah (to be beautiful, decorate; root means being bright, which implies being beautiful). This is beautiful in a literal or figurative sense – appropriate, handsome, godly, pleasant. Toar is 15x in OT. From taar (to incline, extend, mark out). This is an outline and so a form or figure or appearance. Mareh is related to “looked” in v2. From raah (see note VIII above). This is sight, appearance, or vision. It can be a view, seeing itself, that which is seen, something real, or a vision one sees.
^LXXXV “loved” = aheb. This is to love, beloved, friend. It is to have affection for sexually or otherwise.
^LXXXVI “seven” = sheba. This is seven or by sevenfold. It can also be used to imply a week or an indefinite number. Symbolically, this is the number of fullness, sacredness, perfection.

^LXXXVII “better” = tob. From tob (to be pleasing, to be good). This is good, beautiful, pleasant, agreeable, bountiful, at ease. This word is used for goodness as a concept, a good thing, a good person. This can refer to prosperity and welfare as well as joy, kindness, sweetness, and graciousness. So, this is ethically good, but also enjoyably good.
^LXXXVIII “give” = natan. This is to give, put, set, offer. It is to give literally or figuratively.
^LXXXIX “man” = enosh. From anash (to be weak, sick, or frail). This is human, humankind, another. It is mortal.

^XC “seemed” = hayah. Same as {untranslated} in v10. See note XLVIII above.
^XCI “few” = echad. Perhaps from achad (to unify, continue on a path; figuratively, to gather one’s thoughts). This is the number one, first, united. It can also be alone, altogether, a certain, a few.
^XCII “days” = yom. Same as “daylight” in v7. See note XL above.

^XCIII “give” = yahab. This is give, put, bring, take. It is to give in a literal or figurative sense.
^XCIV “wife” = ishshah. Perhaps related to “man” in v19. From ish (man); perhaps from enosh (see note LXXXIX). This is woman, wife, or female.
^XCV “go in” = bo. Same as “coming” in v6. See note XXXVII above.
^XCVI “time” = yom. Literally “days.” Same as “daylight” in v7. See note XL above.
^XCVII “completed” = male. This is fill, satisfy, replenish, accomplish, fulfill, confirm, or consecrate. It is fill in a literal or figurative sense.

^XCVIII “people” = enosh. Same as “man” in v19. See note LXXXIX above.
^XCIX “made” = asah. This is to make, do, act, appoint, become in many senses.
^C “feast” = mishteh. From shathah (to drink literally or figuratively; a drinker). This is drink or the act of drinking. So it is a feast or banquet, as occasions with drinking.

^CI {untranslated} = hayah. Same as {untranslated} in v10. See note XLVIII above.
^CII “took” = laqach. This is to take, accept, carry away, receive. It can also have the sense of take a wife or take in marriage.
^CIII “Zilpah” = Zilpah. 7x in OT. Perhaps from zalaph (drip, sprinkle, pour – as fragrance or myrrh does). This is Zilpah, meaning “drop” or “sprinkle.” See https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Zilpah.html#.XwCu7yhKhPY
^CIV “maid” = shiphchah. Root may mean to spread out – it would be the same root used in mishpachah, which means family or clan. This is maidservant, female slave, or female bondslave.

^CV “morning” = boqer. From baqar (to seek, plow, break forth, admire, care for). This refers to the break of day. So it is dawn, early, morning, or morrow.
^CVI “came” = hayah. Same as {untranslated} in v10. See note XLVIII above.
^CVII {untranslated} = hinneh. Same as “saw” in v2. See note IX above.
^CVIII “done” = asah. Same as “made” in v22. See note XCIX above.
^CIX “deceived” = ramah. 13x in OT. This is to hurl, shoot, carry, or throw. Figuratively, it is to beguile, delude or betray. It can also refer to an archer.

^CX “country” = maqom. Same as “place” in v3. See note XXIV above.
^CXI “younger” = tsair. From tsaar (to be brought low, small, little one; figuratively, be insignificant or ignoble). This is little, young, least, younger, few in number, low in value.
^CXII “before” = paneh. From panah (to turn, face, appear). This is face in a literal or figurative sense. It could be face, presence, anger, respect. It can also be used of God to indicate divine favor or presence.
^CXIII “firstborn” = bekirah. 6x in OT. From bakar (to bear fruit, be firstborn, firstling, that which opens the womb, give the birthright to). This is firstborn – specifically referring to a firstborn daughter.

^CXIV “week” = shabua. Related to “seven” in v18. From sheba (see note LXXXVI above). This is a unit of seven, often used to refer to a week or 7 years (i.e. a week of years).
^CXV “serving” = abodah. Related to “serve” in v15. From abad (see note LXXIII above). This is labor, service, bondage, job, servitude, worker. It can refer to any kind of work.
^CXVI Literally “for the service which you will serve with me.”
^CXVII “Bilhah” = Bilhah. 11x in OT. From balahh (to be afraid, to palpitate) OR from balah (to wear out). This is Bilhah, perhaps meaning “timid,” “trouble,” “foolish,” or “calamity.” It is also a place. Seehttps://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Bilhah.html

^CXVIII “Lord” = YHVH. Related to {untranslated} in v10. From havah (to be, become) or hayah (see note XLVIII above). This is the name of the God of Israel, the self-existent and eternal one, the tetragrammaton. This pronunciation has been lost to time so “Lord” is generally used in its place.
^CXIX “was unloved” = sane. This is an enemy or foe. It is one that is hated with a personal hatred.
^CXX “opened” = patach. This is to open wide in a literal or figurative sense. So, it is open, draw out, let something go free, break forth. It can also mean to plow, engrave, or carve.
^CXXI “womb” = rechem. Related to racham (compassion, tender love, womb, compassion; the womb as that which cherishes the fetus). This is a womb.
^CXXII “barren” = aqar. 12x in OT. From the same as eqer (stock, member, offshoot; figuratively, could be a descendant or someone who is transplanted like an immigrant who takes up permanent residence); from aqar (to uproot, pluck out, dig out by the roots, to hamstring; figuratively, to exterminate). This is barrenness or a woman who is barren.

^CXXIII “conceived” = harah. This is to conceive or be pregnant – it can be literal or figurative.
^CXXIV “bore” = yalad. This is to bear or bring forth. It can mean to act as midwife or to show one’s lineage. This is often used for birth or begetting.
^CXXV “named” = qara + shem. Literally “she called his name.” Qara is to call or call out – to call someone by name. Also used more broadly for calling forth. Shem is the same as “name” in v16. See note LXXVII above.
^CXXVI “Reuben” = Reuben. Related to “looked” in v2 &{untranslated} in v17 & “people” in v1. From raah (see note VIII above) + ben (see note VI above). This is Reuben, meaning “behold a son.”
^CXXVII “affliction” = oniy. From anah (to be bowed down; humility or being browbeaten, oppressed, afflicted, or depressed; literal or figurative – depressed in mood or circumstance). This is misery, poverty, or affliction.
^CXXVIII “husband” = ish. Perhaps related to “man” in v19 & “wife” in v21. See note XCIV above.

^CXXIX “hated” = sane. Same as “unloved” in v31. See note CXIX above.
^CXXX “Simeon” = Shimon. Related to “heard” and “news” in v13. From shama (see note LIX above). This is Simeon – Jacob’s son and his tribe. It means “he who hears.”
^CXXXI “time” = paam. From paam (to move, trouble; to tap in a regular rhythm; to agitate). This is a beat, stroke, footstep, or occurrence.
^CXXXII “joined” = lavah. This is to join, abide with, borrow. Properly, it means to twine, which gives it the sense of joining or uniting. It can also mean to remain or borrow/lend as joining an obligation to another. This root may be where the name/tribe Levi comes from.
^CXXXIII “Levi” = Levi. Perhaps related to “joined” in v34. Perhaps from lavah (see note CXXXII above). This is Levi, perhaps meaning “attached.” It can refer to Jacob’s son, his tribe, and descendants.

^CXXXIV “praise” = yadah. From yad (hand). This is to throw one’s hands into the air in a gesture of praise. So, it is to praise, give thanks, or make a confession.
^CXXXV “Judah” = Yehudah. Related to “praise” in v35. Probably from yadah (see note CXXXIV above). This is Judah, meaning “praised.”
^CXXXVI “ceased” = amad. This is to stand up in a literal or figurative sense. So it can be establish, continue, endure, take a stand, act, be a servant, stand still, remain, stand against an enemy.