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Genesis 29:31

And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

KJV

Videns autem Dominus quod despiceret Liam, aperuit vulvam ejus, sorore sterili permanente.

Vulgate

Ἰδὼν δὲ Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὅτι μισεῖται Λεία, ἤνοιξεν τὴν μήτραν αὐτῆς· Ῥαχὴλ δὲ ἦν στεῖρα.

LXX

And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

ASV

וַ/יַּ֤רְא יְהוָה֙ כִּֽי שְׂנוּאָ֣ה לֵאָ֔ה וַ/יִּפְתַּ֖ח אֶת רַחְמָ֑/הּ וְ/רָחֵ֖ל עֲקָרָֽה

Hebrew

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People LeahRachel

In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
י
y
verb · 148×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִּפְתַּ֖ח
yptch
verb · 144×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֵאָ֔ה
l'h
proper_noun · 34×
עֲקָרָ֖ה
'qrh
adjective · 12×
רֶ֖חֶם
rchm
noun · 26×
רָחֵ֖ל
rchl
proper_noun · 47×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 1:5 — But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
  • 1Sam 2:21 — And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
  • 1Tim 6:10 — For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • 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:
  • Exod 3:7 — And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
  • Gen 20:17 — So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
  • Gen 20:18 — For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
  • Gen 25:21 — And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 27:41 — And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
  • 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 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 30:1 — And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
  • Gen 30:1 — And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
  • Gen 30:2 — And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
  • Gen 30:22 — And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Gen 30:22 — And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Gen 30:23 — And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
  • John 12:25 — He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
  • Judg 13:2 — And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
  • Luke 1:7 — And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
  • Luke 14:26 — If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • Mal 1:3 — And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
  • Matt 10:37 — He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Ps 127:3 — Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
  • Ruth 4:13 — So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.