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Genesis 30:11 KJV
Genesis · chapter 30 · verse 11
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.Genesis 30:11 · King James Version
Genesis 30:11 in context
9When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
11And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
12And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
13And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- comethbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- troopgâdfortuneH1409 →
- LeahLêʼâhLeah, a wife of JacobH3812 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- nameshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
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We have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob made with the two sisters. Here is, I. An unhappy disagreement between him and Rachel (Gen 30:1, Gen 30:2), occasioned, not so much by her own barrenness as by her sister's fruitfulness.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13