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Genesis 30:13 KJV
Genesis · chapter 30 · verse 13
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.Genesis 30:13 · King James Version
Genesis 30:13 in context
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.
14And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
15And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- daughtersbatha daughterH1323 →
- blessedʼâsharto be straightH833 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- 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