Genesis 29:20
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
KJV
Servivit ergo Jacob pro Rachel septem annis : et videbantur illi pauci dies præ amoris magnitudine.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐδούλευσεν Ἰακὼβ περὶ Ῥαχὴλ ἑπτὰ ἔτη.
LXX
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
ASV
וַ/יַּעֲבֹ֧ד יַעֲקֹ֛ב בְּ/רָחֵ֖ל שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֑ים וַ/יִּהְי֤וּ בְ/עֵינָי/ו֙ כְּ/יָמִ֣ים אֲחָדִ֔ים בְּ/אַהֲבָת֖/וֹ אֹתָֽ/הּ
Hebrew
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In this verse
In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶחָ֖ד
'chd
adjective · 970×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אֹהֵ֣ב
'hb
verb · 209×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יַעֲקֹ֖ב
y'qb
proper_noun · 346×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
ם
m
verb · 287×
רָחֵ֖ל
rchl
proper_noun · 47×
שִׁבְעַ֥ת
shb't
adjective · 393×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×
Typology
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Does not behave itself unseemly. Nay, why, says he, do I say, she 'is not puffed up,' when she is so far from that feeling, that in suffering the most shameful things for him whom she loves, she does not even count the thing an unseemliness? Again, he did not say, she suffers unseemliness but bears the shame nobly, but, she does not even entertain any sense at all of the sha…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 13:7 — Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
- 1Cor 13:7 — Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
- 2Cor 5:14 — For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
- 2Sam 13:1 — And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
- Deut 21:15 — If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
- Eph 5:2 — And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
- Gen 24:67 — And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Gen 29:18 — And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Gen 29:30 — And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Gen 30:26 — Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
- Hos 12:12 — And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
- Prov 18:22 — Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
- Song 8:6 — Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.