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Genesis 38:5

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5 Und wiederum gebar sie einen Sohn, und sie gab ihm den Namen Schela; Juda war aber zu Kesib, als sie ihn gebar.

Genesis 38:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 38:5

And she conceived, and bare a son
A third son: and called his name Shelah;
which signifies tranquil, quiet, peaceable and prosperous, and is a word that comes from the same root as Shiloh, that famous son of Judah that should spring from him, ( Genesis 49:10 ) the reason of the name, as given by the Targum, is,

``because her husband forgot her:''
and she was at Chezib when she bare him;
Chezib is the name of a place, by some taken to be the same with Achzib or Ecdippe, now Zib, see ( Micah 1:14 ) ; it seems to be a city in the tribe of Judah; and Jerom says, in his time there was a desert place of this name near Adullam, on the borders of Eleutheropolis; the reason of her being here at the time of her delivery, and of this circumstance being related, is not certain.

FOOTNOTES:

F14 De loc. Heb. fol. 90. E.
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Genesis 38:5 In-Context

3 Und sie wurde schwanger und gebar einen Sohn, und er gab ihm den Namen Gher.
4 Und sie wurde abermals schwanger und gebar einen Sohn, und sie gab ihm den Namen Onan.
5 Und wiederum gebar sie einen Sohn, und sie gab ihm den Namen Schela; Juda war aber zu Kesib, als sie ihn gebar.
6 Und Juda nahm ein Weib für Gher, seinen Erstgeborenen, und ihr Name war Tamar.
7 Und Gher, der Erstgeborene Judas, war böse in den Augen Jehovas, und Jehova tötete ihn.
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