Genesis 30:37
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| Overview - Genesis 30 | |
| 1 | Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob. |
| 5 | Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali. |
| 9 | Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher. |
| 14 | Reuben finds mandrakes, with which Leah buys her husband's company of Rachel. |
| 17 | Leah bears Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. |
| 22 | Rachel bears Joseph. |
| 25 | Jacob desires to depart. |
| 27 | Laban detains him on a new agreement. |
| 37 | Jacob's policy, whereby he becomes rich. |
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Genesis 30:37 (King James Version)
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
- Jacob
- 31:9-13
- green poplar
- {Livneh} is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from {lavan} to be white.
- hasel
- Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that {luz} is not the "hazel" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac.
- chestnut tree
- The Hebrew word {armon,} signifies "the plane-tree," so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root {aram,} signifies.
- Ezekiel 31:8