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Genesis 30:6 KJV
Genesis · chapter 30 · verse 6
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.Genesis 30:6 · King James Version
Genesis 30:6 in context
4And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
6And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
7And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- RachelRâchêlRachel, a wife of JacobH7354 →
- judgeddîyna straight courseH1777 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- heardshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- voiceqôwla voice or soundH6963 →
- givennâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
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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