Genesis 38:3

3 And she conceaued and bare a sonne and called his name 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 And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren and gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam

2 and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte. And he toke her ad went in vnto her.

3 And she conceaued and bare a sonne and called his name Er.

4 And she conceaued agayne and bare a sonne and called him Onan.

5 And she conceaued the thyrde tyme and bare a sonne whom she called Scla: and he was at Chesyb when she bare hem.