Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 38:4
And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan.
And she conceived again, and bare a son,…. As soon as she well could:
and she called his name Onan; the first son Judah gave the name to, but his wife named this, so called from grief or sorrow; the reason of it, according to the above Targum, was,
“because his father would mourn for him;”
he was a Benoni, see Ge 35:18, whose sin and immature death caused sorrow.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Chezib means a lie, deceit. It was a little village. Jos 15:44 ; Mic 1:14-15 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
Ver. 4. She called. ] Shush named her two latter children; the one it is like by the licence, the other by the absence of her husband.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
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Onan: Gen 46:12, Num 26:19