GENESIS 31:17

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;”

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Genesis 31:17 Translation & Meaning

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Then Jacob יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch Then Jacob
rose up, וַיָּ֖קָם To rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative) rose up
and set וַיִּשָּׂ֛א To lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative set
his sons בָּנָ֥יו A son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.) sons
and his wives נָשָׁ֖יו A woman wives
upon עַל Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications upon
camels; הַגְּמַלִּֽים׃ A camel camels

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  • 15  Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

  • 16  For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

  • 17  Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

  • 18  And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

  • 19  And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.




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