Genesis 30:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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שִׁשִּׁ֖י

shishshîy

H8345

“sixth”

Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 28× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 1:31

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H8337

TWOT: 2336b

sixth - sixth (ordinal number) - sixth (as fraction)

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 →

7: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שִׁשִּׁ֖י sixth H8345 occurs in 26 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
3 nouns
1 adjective
1 adverb

Verb forms

וַתַּ֤הַר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַתֵּ֥לֶד Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 10 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.

Hebrew Genesis 30:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַתַּ֤הַר עוֹד֙ לֵאָ֔ה וַתֵּ֥לֶד בֵּן שִׁשִּׁ֖י לְּיַעֲקֹֽב

Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 30:19 Septuagint · lemma form

καί συνλαμβάνω ἔτι λεια καί τίκτω υἱός ἕκτος ὁ ἰακώβ

And Lea conceived again, and bore Jacob a sixth son.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְעַדִּיאַת עוֹד לֵאָה וִילִידַת בַּר שְׁתִיתָאֵי לְיַעֲקֹב

(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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְאִתְעֲבָּרַת תּוּב לֵאָה וִילֵידַת בַּר שְׁתִיתָאֵי לְיַעֲקב

And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jakob;

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 30:19 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

30:19-20 Zebulun means “honor” or “gift,” as in a dowry or tribute. Leah thought that God gave her Zebulun so that her husband would honor her. This hope never fully left her.

John Gill's Exposition

And God remembered Rachel,.... In a way of mercy and kindness, whom he seemed to have forgotten, by not giving her children:

and God hearkened to her; to her prayer, which had been made time after time, that she might have children; but hitherto God had delayed to answer, but now gives one:

and opened her womb; gave her conception, and made her fruitful, and she became the mother of a child she so much desired.

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

Vers. 19, 20. And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. And Leah said, God (Elohim; vide supra) hath endued me with a good dowry. Dedwrhtai moi dwron kalon (LXX), dotavit me dote bona (Vulgate), hath presented me with a goodly present. The word dbz is an apax legomenon. Now will my husband dwell with me. lbz also an apax leg., signifies to be or make round (Gesenius), to limit round or encompass (Furst); hence, according to both, to cohabit or dwell together as husband and wife. The LXX render aiJretiei, the meaning being that Leah"s six sons would, in her judgment, be an inducement sufficiently powerful to cause Jacob to select her society instead of that of her barren sister. And she called his name Zebulani.e. Dwelling; from zabal, to dwell with, with a play upon the word lbz to hire, which, commencing with the same letter, was regarded as similar in sound to dbz; the d and the l being sometimes interchangeable (Keil, Kalisch).

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Leah conceived again

"Leah became pregnant again"

bore a sixth son to Jacob

"gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob"

She called his name Zebulun

Translators may also add a footnote that says: "The name Zebulun means 'honor.'"

called her name Dinah

This is the name of Leah's daughter. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

honor

Zebulun

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shishshîy (“sixth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “sixth” (shishshîy) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 1:31, which shares the word «sixth», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַתַּ֤הַר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.