Thus were
Abraham and Lot are contrasted characters. Of the same stock Genesis 11:31 subjected to the same environment, and both justified men; Genesis 15:6 ; 2 Peter 2:7 ; 2 Peter 2:8 the contrast in character and career is shown to be the result of their respective choices at the crisis of their lives. Lot "chose him all the plain of Jordan" for present advantage; Abraham "looked for a city which hath foundations"; Hebrews 11:10 ; Genesis 13:18 "came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre (fatness), which is in Hebron" (communion). The men remain types of the worldly and spiritual believer.
Chapter Summary: Genesis 19
1Lot entertains two angels 4The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness 12Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law 15He is directed to flee to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar 24Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed 26Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt 29Lot dwells in a cave 31The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon
What do the individual words in Genesis 19:36 mean?
Thus became pregnantthe twodaughtersof Lotby their father
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person feminine plural
Root: הֹור
Sense: to conceive, become pregnant, bear, be with child, be conceived, progenitor.
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: לֹוט
Sense: son of Haran and Abraham’s nephew who settled in Sodom and was delivered from its destruction by God.