{"id":838,"date":"2022-09-23T22:56:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T03:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-genesis-2934\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T22:56:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T03:56:43","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-genesis-2934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-genesis-2934\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 29:34"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 34<\/strong>. <em> joined<\/em> ] From the root <em> lavah<\/em>, &ldquo;to join.&rdquo; In <span class='bible'>Num 18:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Num 18:4<\/span>, this word <em> lavah<\/em> is especially used of the <em> attachment<\/em> of the sons of Levi to the service of Jehovah, as the priestly tribe. According to many scholars, the name denotes <em> the<\/em> tribe <em> par excellence<\/em> of the Leah group; which, owing to some great disaster, was broken up, and the name survived only in the guild of Priests and their assistants. See on chap. 34 and <span class='bible'>Gen 49:5-7<\/span>. On the meaning of Leah, see note on <span class='bible'>Gen 29:16<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>34<\/span>. <I><B>Therefore was his name called Levi.<\/B><\/I>]  <I>levi,<\/I> <I>joined<\/I>; because she supposed that, in consequence of all these children, Jacob would become <I>joined<\/I> to her in as strong affection, at least, as he was to Rachel.  From Levi sprang the tribe of <I>Levites<\/I>, who instead of the <I>first-born<\/I>, were <I>joined<\/I> unto the priests in the service of the sanctuary.  See <span class='bible'>Gen 18:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Gen 18:4<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>This time will my husband be joined unto me<\/B> in more sincere and fervent affection. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And she conceived again, and bare a son<\/strong>,&#8230;. A third time, as soon as she well could after the former birth:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and said, now this time will my husband be joined to me<\/strong>; in greater affection and stronger ties of love, and cleave unto her:<\/p>\n<p><strong>because I have born him three sons<\/strong>; which she considered as a threefold cord, binding his affections to her, which could not be easily broke;<\/p>\n<p><strong>and therefore was his name called Levi<\/strong>; which signifies &#8220;joined&#8221;; from him the Levites sprung, and had their name.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 34<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Levi <\/strong> Which means <em> a joining<\/em> <em> .<\/em> <em> <\/em> Fondly now does she hope for a deeper and truer heart union with her husband .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Levi means joined. See <span class='bible'>Num 18:2<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Hawker&#8217;s Poor Man&#8217;s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Gen 29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 34. <strong> And she conceived again.<\/strong> ] So, what she wanted in beauty, she had in fecundity or fruitfuiness: and this redounded to God&rsquo;s greater glory, by Leah&rsquo;s thankfulness; who might say &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo; <em> Si mihi difficilis formam natura negavit,<\/p>\n<p> Laude Dei, formae, damna rependo, meae .&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Sappho, apud Ovid<\/em> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>joined. Hebrew. yillaveh (joined). <\/p>\n<p>Was his name called. Hebrew she called his name, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint. Error due to neglected abbreviation in primitive Hebrew text. Figure of speech Paronomasia. App-6. <\/p>\n<p>Levi. Hebrew. Levi (joiner). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>am 2254, bc 1750 <\/p>\n<p>was: Gen 34:25, Gen 35:23, Gen 46:11, Gen 49:5-7, Exo 2:1, Exo 32:26-29, Deu 33:8-10 <\/p>\n<p>Levi: that is, joined, Num 18:2-4 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 30:20 &#8211; now will 1Ch 6:38 &#8211; Levi 1Ch 6:47 &#8211; Levi Rev 7:7 &#8211; Levi<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. 34. joined ] From the root lavah, &ldquo;to join.&rdquo; In Num 18:2; Num 18:4, this word lavah is especially used of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-genesis-2934\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 29:34&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}