Genesis 38:2

2 There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her;

Genesis 38:2 in Other Translations

2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

2 There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,

2 There he saw a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua, and he married her. When he slept with her,

2 While there, Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua. He married her, they went to bed,

2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he took her, and went in unto her.

2 There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man whose name was Shua. He married her and slept with her.

2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her.

2 There Judah met the daughter of a man from Canaan. His name was Shua. Judah married her and made love to 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 left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.

2 There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her;

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

4 She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan.

5 She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.

Cross References

• 1. ver 12; 1 Chronicles 2:3