וְאֵ֗ת עֹרֹת֙ גְּדָיֵ֣י הָֽעִזִּ֔ים הִלְבִּ֖ישָׁה עַל יָדָ֑יו וְעַ֖ל חֶלְקַ֥ת צַוָּארָֽיו
She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 27:16
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 27:16 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.
English Translation
She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
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King James Version Public Domain
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And she put the skins of the kid goats over his hands and over the smooth part of his neck.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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King James Version Public Domain
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And she couered his hands and the smoothe of his necke with the skinnes of the kiddes of the goates.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the skins of the kids of the goats she hath put on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and she has put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And she put the skins of the kid goats over his hands and over the smooth part of his neck.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth part of his neck:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
She put the goatskins on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck:
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.
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גְּדָיֵ֣י
gᵉdîy
H1423
“kids of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- Appears 16× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 27:9
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
kid, young male goat
- וְאֵ֗ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- עֹרֹת֙ ʻôwr H5785 “skins of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- גְּדָיֵ֣י gᵉdîy H1423 “kids of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- הָֽעִזִּ֔ים ʻêz H5795 “the · female goats” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- הִלְבִּ֖ישָׁה lâbash H3847 “to clothe” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- יָדָ֑יו yâd H3027 “hands · his” Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְעַ֖ל ʻal H5921 “and · upon” Conjunction + Preposition
- חֶלְקַ֥ת chelqâh H2513 “smoothness of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- צַוָּארָֽיו tsavvâʼr H6677 “necks · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is גְּדָיֵ֣י kid H1423 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
גְּדָיֵ֣י kid H1423 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 6 nouns
- 2 prepositions
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- הִלְבִּ֖ישָׁה Hiphil · Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- עַל upon H5921 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 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.
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.
καί ὁ δέρμα ὁ ἔριφος περιτίθημι ἐπί ὁ βραχίων αὐτός καί ἐπί ὁ γυμνός ὁ τράχηλος αὐτός
And she put on his arms the skins of the kids, and on the bare parts of his neck.
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)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיָת מַשְׁכֵי גַּדְיֵי בַּר עִזֵּי אַלְבִּישַׁת עַל יְדוֹהִי וְעַל שְׁעִיעוּת צַוְרֵהּ
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיַת מַשְׁכֵי דִגְדָיֵי בְּנֵי עִזֵי אַלְבִּישַׁת עַל יְדוֹי וְעַל שְׁעִיעוּת צַוְורֵיהּ
And the skins of the kids she laid upon his hands and the smooth parts of his neck.
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.
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 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gᵉdîy (“kid”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “kid” (gᵉdîy) shape what this verse is saying?
- 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- Genesis 27:9 shares the word «kid» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “upon” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- 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?
- The verb «הִלְבִּ֖ישָׁה» is Hiphil Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “upon” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 27:16 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
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.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Radak
Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)
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.