The Meaning of Genesis 29:9 Explained

Genesis 29:9

KJV: And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

YLT: He is yet speaking with them, and Rachel hath come with the flock which her father hath, for she is shepherdess;

Darby: While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

ASV: While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep. For she kept them.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And while he yet  spake  with them, Rachel  came  with her father's  sheep:  for she kept them. 

What does Genesis 29:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Genesis 29:1-20 - Jacob In Laban's Home
Well might Jacob lift up his feet! See margin. When we are sure of God we receive strength that enables us to run with patience the race that is set before us. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and we have a special claim on His guidance in our matrimonial alliances-the most solemn and momentous step of all. There were many good qualities in Rachel, fitting her to be a good wife. Her humility and industry, her patience under the oppression of the unmannerly shepherds, her haste to share her joy with her father-all these elicited Jacob's love. What a touch of old-world and new-world poetry is in those words of Genesis 29:20! Where Love is queen time is too short, labor never hard, distance never long, sacrifice unheard of! Oh, that we so loved our Lord, that for the missionary toiling through long years, and the invalid condemned to a life of pain, affliction might appear light and but for a moment. [source]

Chapter Summary: Genesis 29

1  Jacob comes to the well of Haran
9  He becomes acquainted with Rachel
13  Laban entertains him
18  Jacob covenants for Rachel
23  He is deceived by Laban with Leah
28  He marries also Rachel, and serves for her seven years more
32  Leah bears Reuben;
33  Simeon;
34  Levi;
35  and Judah

What do the individual words in Genesis 29:9 mean?

Now while he was still speaking with them then Rachel came with the sheep that were of her father for pastured them she
עוֹדֶ֖נּוּ מְדַבֵּ֣ר עִמָּ֑ם וְרָחֵ֣ל ׀ בָּ֗אָה עִם־ הַצֹּאן֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְאָבִ֔יהָ כִּ֥י רֹעָ֖ה הִֽוא

עוֹדֶ֖נּוּ  Now  while 
Parse: Adverb, third person masculine singular
Root: עֹוד  
Sense: a going round, continuance adv.
מְדַבֵּ֣ר  he  was  still  speaking 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Participle, masculine singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
עִמָּ֑ם  with  them 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
Root: עִם  
Sense: with.
וְרָחֵ֣ל ׀  then  Rachel 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: רָחֵל  
Sense: daughter of Laban, wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
בָּ֗אָה  came 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
הַצֹּאן֙  the  sheep 
Parse: Article, Noun, common singular
Root: צֹאן  
Sense: small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks.
אֲשֶׁ֣ר  that  were  of 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
לְאָבִ֔יהָ  her  father 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: אָב  
Sense: father of an individual.
רֹעָ֖ה  pastured  them 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine singular
Root: רָעָה 
Sense: to pasture, tend, graze, feed.
הִֽוא  she 
Parse: Pronoun, third person feminine singular
Root: הוּא 
Sense: he, she, it.

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