Genesis 25:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 25:10 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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Genesis 25:10 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/genesis/25/10.

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the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    the field that Abraham had bought from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    The field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Which fielde Abraham bought of the Hittites, where Abraham was buryed with Sarah his wife.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth -- there hath Abraham been buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth—there Abraham has been buried, and his wife Sarah.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    This field Abraham had bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah his wife.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    the field that Abraham had bought from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    the field that Abraham had purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    This was the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth; there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

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12
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11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חֵ֑ת Heth H2845 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֵ֑ת Heth H2845 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 adverb
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • קָנָ֥ה Qal · Perfect
  • קֻבַּ֥ר Pual · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • אַבְרָהָ֖ם Abraham H85 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 20 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 25:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 23:16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
  • Genesis 49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Genesis 25:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

הַשָּׂדֶ֛ה אֲשֶׁר קָנָ֥ה אַבְרָהָ֖ם מֵאֵ֣ת בְּנֵי חֵ֑ת שָׁ֛מָּה קֻבַּ֥ר אַבְרָהָ֖ם וְשָׂרָ֥ה אִשְׁתּֽוֹ

the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 25:10 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ ἀγρός καί ὁ σπήλαιον ὅς κτάομαι αβρααμ παρά ὁ υἱός χετ ἐκεῖ θάπτω αβρααμ καί σαρρα ὁ γυνή αὐτός

even the field and the cave which Abraam bought of the sons of Chet; there they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife.

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)
    חַקְלָא דִּי זְבַן אַבְרָהָם מִן בְּנֵי חִתָּאָה תַּמָּן אִתְקְבַר אַבְרָהָם וְשָׂרָה אִתְּתֵהּ

    (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)
    חַקְלָא דִזְבַן אַבְרָהָם מִן בְּנֵי חִתָּאָה תַּמָן אִתְקְבַר אַבְרָהָם וְשָרָה אִנְתְּתֵיהּ

    the field that Abraham purchased of the sons of Hittah: there was Abraham buried and Sarah his wife.

    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 25:10 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.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

Ver. 10. The field.] {See Trapp on "Gen 23:17"} {See Trapp on "Gen 23:18"}

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

The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth,.... Of one of them, Ephron, the rest being witnesses of it, Gen 23:16,

there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife; Sarah had been buried there thirty eight years before, which was the reason why his sons buried, him there; if he died in Beersheba, as seems probable, see Gen 24:62; from thence to Hebron were sixteen miles (h); so far was he carried to be interred.

(h) Bunting's Travels, p. 57.

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

Radak

Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)

השדה, every time the burial in this cave is mentioned in the Torah the fact that Avraham had purchased the cave and the field is mentioned also. It is to pay tribute to the love for G’d by Avraham, who in spite of G’d’s promises of owning the entire land, had been unable to bury even his own wife in that land until had had purchased a burial plot for her. Avraham never for a moment queried G’d about this problem he had been forced to cope with.

מאת בני חת, we have explained this on 23,20.

קבר אברהם ושרה אשתו, compare what we wrote on 24,55.

Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

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 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chêth (“Heth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Heth” (Chêth) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Genesis 10:15 shares the word «Heth» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “Abraham” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. The verb «קָנָ֥ה» is Qal Perfect. 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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