Genesis 24:46

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 24:46 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And she hurried and lowered her jar from her and said, ‘Drink and I will also water your camels.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And she made haste, and tooke downe her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also. So I dranke, and she gaue the camels drinke also.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and said to me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and she watered the camels.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and she hasteth and letteth down her pitcher from off her and saith, Drink, and thy camels also I water; and I drink, and the camels also she hath watered.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and she hurries and lets down her pitcher from off her and says, Drink, and I also water your camels; and I drink, and she has also watered the camels.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    She quickly lowered her pitcher from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels water also.' So I drank, and she watered the camels also.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And she hurried and lowered her jar from her and said, ‘Drink and I will also water your camels.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And she hasted and let down her pitcher from her [shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. And I drank; and she gave the camels drink also.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    She quickly lifted the jar down from her shoulder and she said, ‘Please drink, and I'll get water for your camels too.’ So I drank, and she got water for the camels.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

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כַּדָּהּ֙
kad
H3537
“jar · her”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to deepen

TWOT: 953a

jar, large jar (portable)
  1. וַתְּמַהֵ֗ר mâhar H4116 “and · to hasten” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  2. וַתּ֤וֹרֶד yârad H3381 “and · to go down” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  3. מֵֽעָלֶ֔יהָ ʻal H5921 “from · upon · her” Preposition + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  4. וַתֹּ֣אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  5. שְׁתֵ֔ה shâthâh H8354 “drink” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. וְגַם gam H1571 “and · also” Conjunction + Particle, Accusative
  7. גְּמַלֶּ֖יךָ gâmâl H1581 “camels · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. אַשְׁקֶ֑ה shâqâh H8248 “to water” Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  9. וָאֵ֕שְׁתְּ shâthâh H8354 “and · to drink” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  10. וְגַ֥ם gam H1571 “and · also” Conjunction + Particle, Accusative
  11. הַגְּמַלִּ֖ים gâmâl H1581 “the · camels” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  12. הִשְׁקָֽתָה shâqâh H8248 “to water” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular

About this verse

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13
words
9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is כַּדָּהּ֙ jar H3537 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

כַּדָּהּ֙ jar H3537 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 7 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וַתְּמַהֵ֗ר Piel · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַתּ֤וֹרֶד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַתֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • שְׁתֵ֔ה Qal · Imperative
  • אַשְׁקֶ֑ה Hiphil · Imperfect
  • וָאֵ֕שְׁתְּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • הִשְׁקָֽתָה Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • שְׁתֵ֔ה to drink H8354 ×2
  • וְגַם also H1571 ×2
  • גְּמַלֶּ֖יךָ camel H1581 ×2
  • אַשְׁקֶ֑ה to water H8248 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 32 words from the Hebrew and 34 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 24 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Genesis 24:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 24:18–19 She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Genesis 24:46 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַתְּמַהֵ֗ר וַתּ֤וֹרֶד כַּדָּהּ֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יהָ וַתֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁתֵ֔ה וְגַם גְּמַלֶּ֖יךָ אַשְׁקֶ֑ה וָאֵ֕שְׁתְּ וְגַ֥ם הַגְּמַלִּ֖ים הִשְׁקָֽתָה

She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 24:46 Septuagint · lemma form

καί σπεύδω κατααἱρέω ὁ ὑδρία αὐτός ἀπό ἑαυτοῦ καί εἶπον πίνω σύ καί ὁ κάμηλος σύ ποτίζω καί πίνω καί ὁ κάμηλος ἐγώ ποτίζω

And she hasted and let down her pitcher on her arm from her head, and said, Drink you, and I will give your camels drink; and I drank, and she gave the camels drink.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְאוֹחִיאַת וַאֲחִיתַת קוּלְתַהּ מִנַּהּ וַאֲמֶרֶת אֵשְׁתְּ וְאַף גַּמְלָךְ אַשְׁקִי וּשְׁתֵיתִי וְאַף גַּמְלַיָּא אַשְׁקִיאַת

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְאוֹחִיאַת וַאֲחִיתַת לְגִינְתָהּ מִינָהּ וַאֲמָרִית שְׁתִי וְאוּף גַמְלִיךְ אַשְׁקִי וְשָׁתִיתִי וְאוּף גַמְלַיָיא אַשְׁקִיַית

    And she hastened and let down her pitcher from her, and said, Drink, and I will also give thy camels drink.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 24:46 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her [shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

Ver. 46. And she made the camels drink.] {See Trapp on "Gen 24:14"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Behold, Rebekah is before thee,.... Not only was present, but she was delivered to him, or his request was granted:

take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife; not that they meant he should go away directly with her; for they afterwards solicit her stay with them some time; but they agreed that he should bare her and conduct her to Isaac, to be taken by him for his wife:

as the Lord hath spoken; for so they understood the token given to the servant to know her by, as the determination of God.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kad (“jar”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word kad carries the sense “jar.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Genesis 24:14 shares the word «jar» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to drink” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «וַתְּמַהֵ֗ר» is Piel Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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