Genesis 23:1
SARAH. The only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible. in Genesis 22:23 Rebekah is mentioned: one sun rising before the other sets.... [ Continue Reading ]
SARAH. The only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible. in Genesis 22:23 Rebekah is mentioned: one sun rising before the other sets.... [ Continue Reading ]
KIRJATH-ARBA. See notes on Numbers 13:22, and App-25.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFORE HIS DEAD. Heb leaning over the face of his dead. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM. Compare "thou art", Genesis 23:6. STRANGER AND. SOJOURNER. Compare 1 Peter 2:11.Psalms 39:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. Hebrew. _sons,_ and so elsewhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIGHTY PRINCE. Hebrew. _prince of El._ Genitive of relation (App-17), for Adjective. Compare Psalms 36:7; Psalms 80:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIND. _soul._ Hebrew. _nephesh,_ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
MONEY. Hebrew silver. BURYINGPLACE. What Jacob bought (Genesis 33:19; Genesis 33:20) was for an altar.... [ Continue Reading ]
DWELT. Hebrew was sitting there.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE I. Hebrew have. given. Figure of speech _Antimereia_ (of Verb), past for present.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT GIVE. Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ Supply "hast given" from Genesis 23:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT IS THAT. Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABRAHAM. This is not the purchase referred to in Genesis 33:19 and Acts 7:16. Act 7:80 years between this purchase and Jacob's. See note on Acts 7:16. BEFORE ALL. Some Codices with Samaritan Pentateuch have "even before all".... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE SURE. This was all strictly in conformity with the commercial enactments of the Code of Khammurabi. See App-15. BURYINGPLACE. All that Abraham possessed; hut in the faith and hope of resurrection.... [ Continue Reading ]