וַתִּתֵּ֧ן אֶת הַמַּטְעַמִּ֛ים וְאֶת הַלֶּ֖חֶם אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑תָה בְּיַ֖ד יַעֲקֹ֥ב בְּנָֽהּ
She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 27:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 27:17 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 gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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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 gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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King James Version Public Domain
And she gave the savory meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then she gave the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son,
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 gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
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King James Version Public Domain
And she gave the savory meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Afterward she put the pleasant meate and bread, which she had prepared, in the hand of her sonne Iaakob.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and she giveth the tasteful things, and the bread which she hath made, into the hand of Jacob her son.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and she gives the tasteful things, and the bread which she has made, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
She put the delicious food and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then she gave the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and she gave the savoury dishes and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And she gave the savory meat, and the bread which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she'd made.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And she gave into the hand of Jacob, her son, the meat and the bread which she had made ready.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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הַמַּטְעַמִּ֛ים
maṭʻam
H4303
“the · dainties”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 27:4
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
tasty or savory food, delectable food, dainties
- וַתִּתֵּ֧ן nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַמַּטְעַמִּ֛ים maṭʻam H4303 “the · dainties” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- הַלֶּ֖חֶם lechem H3899 “the · bread” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- עָשָׂ֑תָה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- בְּיַ֖ד yâd H3027 “in/at · hand of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- יַעֲקֹ֥ב Yaʻăqôb H3290 “Jacob” Noun, Proper
- בְּנָֽהּ bên H1121 “son · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, 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 הַמַּטְעַמִּ֛ים dainties H4303 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמַּטְעַמִּ֛ים dainties H4303 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 3 particles
Verb forms
- וַתִּתֵּ֧ן Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- עָשָׂ֑תָה Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 16 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 δίδωμι ὁ ἔδεσμα καί ὁ ἄρτος ὅς ποιέω εἰς ὁ χείρ ἰακώβ ὁ υἱός αὐτός
And she gave the meats, and the loaves which she had prepared, into the hands of Jacob her son.
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)
וִיהָבַת יָת תַּבְשִׁילַיָּא וְיָת לַחְמָא דִּי עֲבָדַת בִּידָא דְיַעֲקֹב בְּרַהּ
(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)
וְסַדְרַת יַת תַּבְשִׁילַיָא וְיַת לַחְמָא דִי עֲבָדַת בְּיַד יַעֲקב בְּרָהּ
And the food and the bread she had made she set in the hand of Jakob her son.
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 maṭʻam (“dainties”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “dainties” (maṭʻam) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Genesis 27:4, which shares the word «dainties», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַתִּתֵּ֧ן» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 27:17 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.
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.
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.