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Genesis 19:37

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37 En de eerstgeborene baarde een zoon, en noemde zijn naam Moab; deze is de vader der Moabieten, tot op dezen dag.

Genesis 19:37 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 19:37

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab
As if it was "Meab", from the father, as Aben Ezra, and so Josephus, that is, which she had by her father; and she was so far from being ashamed that it might be known in time to come, she gave him this name. Hillerus F23 makes it to be a compound of (ba) and (abwm) , and to signify "going into", or "lying with a father", which still more notoriously points to her own action. Drusius has another derivation of the word, at least proposes it, and renders it "aqua patris"; "mo" in the Egyptian language signifying "water", which is sometimes used for seed, see ( Isaiah 48:1 ) : the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day;
a people that lived on the borders of the land of Canaan, often troublesome to the Israelites, and frequently spoken of in the Old Testament.


FOOTNOTES:

F23 Onomastic. Sacr. p. 414.
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Genesis 19:37 In-Context

35 En zij gaven haar vader ook dien nacht wijn te drinken, en de jongste stond op, en lag bij hem. En hij werd het niet gewaar in haar nederliggen, noch in haar opstaan.
36 En de twee dochters van Lot werden bevrucht van haar vader.
37 En de eerstgeborene baarde een zoon, en noemde zijn naam Moab; deze is de vader der Moabieten, tot op dezen dag.
38 En de jongste baarde ook een zoon, en noemde zijn naam Ben-Ammi; deze is de vader der kinderen Ammons, tot op dezen dag.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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