וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע יַעֲקֹ֔ב אֶל אָבִ֖יו וְאֶל אִמּ֑וֹ וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה אֲרָֽם
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 28:7
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 28:7 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
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
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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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
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King James Version Public Domain
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan Aram.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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King James Version Public Domain
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And that Iaakob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan Aram:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
that Jacob listens to his father and to his mother, and goes to Padan-Aram—
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Esau also saw that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Paddan Aram.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan Aram.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and [that] Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And that Jacob obeyed his father, and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He also discovered that Jacob had done what his father and mother told him and had left for Paddan-aram.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram;
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פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה
Paddân
H6307
“Padan-aram · toward”
Noun, Proper + Suffix, Demonstrative
- Appears 21× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 25:20
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Padan or Padan-aram = "field"
- a plain or tableland in northern Mesopotamia in Aram, a region of Syria
- וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע shâmaʻ H8085 “and · to hear” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- יַעֲקֹ֔ב Yaʻăqôb H3290 “Jacob” Noun, Proper
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- אָבִ֖יו ʼâb H1 “father · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְאֶל ʼêl H413 “and · to” Conjunction + Preposition
- אִמּ֑וֹ ʼêm H517 “mother · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ yâlak H3212 “and · to walk” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה Paddân H6307 “Padan-aram · toward” Noun, Proper + Suffix, Demonstrative
- אֲרָֽם Paddân H6307 “Padan-aram” Noun, Proper
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 →
- 9
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה Padan-aram H6307 — appearing just 21 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה Padan-aram H6307 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 16 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 15 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
8Topical passages linked to Genesis 28:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Leviticus 19:3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- Proverbs 1:8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:
- Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.
- Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- Ephesians 6:3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."
- Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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 ἀκούω ἰακώβ ὁ πατήρ καί ὁ μήτηρ αὐτός καί πορεύομαι εἰς ὁ μεσοποταμία συρία
and that Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
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)
וְקַבִּיל יַעֲקֹב מִן אֲבוּהִי וּמִן אִמֵּהּ וַאֲזַל לְפַדַּן אֲרָם
(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)
וְקַבֵּיל יַעֲקב בְּמֵימַר אָבוֹי וּבְמֵימַר אִימֵהּ וַאֲזַל לְפַדַן אֲרָם
and that Jakob obeyed the word of his father, and the word of his mother, and was gone to Padan Aram:
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 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Paddân (“Padan-aram”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Padan-aram” (Paddân) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Genesis 25:20, which shares the word «Padan-aram», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “Padan-aram” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע» 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 9 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “Padan-aram” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 28:7 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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.