Genesis 38:3

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

Genesis 38:3 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 38:3

And she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Er.
] Which signifies a "watchman": but the reason of the name given by the Targum of Jonathan is,

``because he should die without children;''

as if it was the same with Ariri, "childless".

Genesis 38:3 In-Context

1 About that time, Judah left his brothers and went to stay with a man named Hirah in the town of Adullam.

2 There Judah met a Canaanite girl, the daughter of a man named Shua, and married her. Judah had sexual relations with her,

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

4 Later she gave birth to another son and named him Onan.

5 Still later she had another son and named him Shelah. She was at Kezib when this third son was born.