She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
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She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
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And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
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And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan.
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Passages linked to Genesis 38:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 46:12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 26:19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a…
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.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And she conceived, and bare a son,.... A third…
And she conceived, and bare a son,.... A third son:
and called his name Shelah; which signifies tranquil, quiet, peaceable and prosperous, and is a word that comes from the same root as Shiloh, that famous son of Judah that should spring from him, Gen 49:10 the reason of the name, as given by the Targum, is,"because her husband forgot her:"
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and she was at Chezib when she bare him; Chezib is the name of a place, by some taken to be the same with Achzib or Ecdippe, now Zib, see Mic 1:14; it seems to be a city in the tribe of Judah; and Jerom (n) says, in his time there was a desert place of this name near Adullam, on the borders of Eleutheropolis; the reason of her being here at the time of her delivery, and of this circumstance being related, is not certain.
(n) De loc. Heb. fol. 90. E.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And she conceived again, and bare a son; and…
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan (Gesenius). The naming of a child by its mother a peculiarity of the so-called Jehovist; but vide Gen_16:15.
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