Genesis 35:16
And they pulled up stakes from Bethel. And there was yet a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel bore; and she had hard labor in her bearing.
Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.
And Jacob removed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder, and it came to pass when he drew nigh to Chabratha, to enter into Ephrath, Rachel travailed; and in her travail she was in hard labor.
Footnotes
| 1090 | Strong’s #3530, kibrat. Feminine. Great one? This is a word for a certain measure just as many other words denote measure, weight, and time. But it is unknown what the measure is from the three occurrences (Gen. 35:16, 48:7, 2 Kin. 5:19). A clue might be found in the root kabar (#3527) which means to plait, braid. See Gesenius. |
| 1091 | Strong’s #672, Ephrathah, fruitful. A name for Bethlehem in Micah 5:2, “And yourself is House of Bread, Fruitful, little to become in thousands of Shooting [Judah], from you to-myself he is going out to become a ruling-one in El-Strives, his origins [“going-out” in noun form] are from the front [east], from the days of olam…” It’s probably worth paying attention to this theme of miqedem (front, east, sunrise) as we find it curiously elsewhere: “…and behold the Star which [or who?] they saw in the dawn-rising [i.e. east] lead them forth until having come it [he] stood over where the child was.” Matthew 2:9 literal |