Genesis 38:2

2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her. After he slept with her,

Genesis 38:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 38:2

And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite
Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Ben Gersom, interpret it a "merchant", to take off the disgrace of his falling in love with, and marrying a Canaanitish woman, which was forbidden by his ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and which his father avoided: whose name [was] Shuah;
not the name of the woman he married, but the name of her father, as appears from ( Genesis 38:12 ) ; and who very probably was a man of note in the country: and he took her;
to be his wife, with her and her father's consent, not by force: and went in unto her;
cohabited with her as his wife.

Genesis 38:2 In-Context

1 At that time, Judah moved away from his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah.

2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her. After he slept with her,

3 she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, whom she named Er.

4 She became pregnant again, gave birth to a son, and named him Onan.

5 Then she gave birth to one more son and named him Shelah. She was in Chezib when she gave birth to him.