Genesis 30:21

Gen 30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

Ver. 21. And called her name Dinah.] Philo in his "Antiquities" saith (but we need not believe him) that this Dinah was afterwards married to Job, and brought him many children.

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Gen 30:21. Mention is made of Dinah, because of the following story concerning her, chap. 34. Perhaps Jacob had other daughters, though not registered.

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30:21 Dinah was Jacob’s only daughter. See ch 34.

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afterwards, she bare a daughter--The inferior value set on a daughter is displayed in the bare announcement of the birth.

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Verse 21. And called her name Dinah.] דינה dinah, judgment. As Rachel had called her son by Bilhah DAN, Ge 30:6, so Leah calls her daughter DINAH, God having judged and determined for her, as well as for her sister in the preceding instance.

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21. And afterward she bare a daughter. It is not known whether Jacob had any other daughter; for it is not uncommon in Scripture, when genealogies are recorded, to omit the women, since they do not bear their own name, but lie concealed under the shadow of their husbands. Meanwhile, if anything worthy of commemoration occurs to any women, especial mention is then made of them. This was the case with Dinah, on account of the violence done to her; of which more will be said hereafter. But whereas the sons of Jacob subsequently regarded it as an indignity that their sister should marry one of another nation; and as Moses records nothing of any other daughters, either as being settled in the land of Canaan, or married in Egypt, it is probable that Dinah was the only one born to him.

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(21) Dinah.—That is, judgment. (See Note on Gen_30:6.) The birth of Dinah is chronicled because it led to Simeon and Levi forfeiting the birthright. Jacob had other daughters (Gen_37:35; Gen_46:7), but the birth of a girl is regarded in the East as a misfortune; no feast is made, and no congratulations offered to the parents.

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21. Dinah] This name must have been similar in meaning to that of Dan; cf. Gen_30:6. This is the only daughter of Jacob whose name is mentioned. The “daughters” in Gen_37:35, Gen_46:7, may have been daughters-in-law.

It is noticeable that no mention of Dinah is made in Gen_32:22, where Jacob’s “eleven children” are spoken of; and it has been suggested that her name here is a later editorial insertion to harmonize the list of children with the story of ch. 34.

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And she called his name Joseph,.... Which signifies "adding", or rather, "to be added"; or, "God shall add", giving this reason for it:

and said, the Lord shall add to me another son: which is expressive of strong faith; that as she had begun to bear children, she should bear another, as she did; though some read the words as a wish or prayer, "may the Lord", or, "and that the Lord would add", &c. (h); but our version seems best: the name Joseph is composed of two words, one which signifies to gather or take away, used in Gen 30:23, and another which signifies to add; and so has respect to the Lord's taking away her reproach, and adding to her another son: Melo, an Heathen writer, makes mention of Joseph by name, as Polyhistor (i) relates, and makes him the twelfth and last son of Abraham, whereas he was the eleventh of Jacob. He was born, as the Jews say (k), the twenty seventh of Tammuz or June, and lived one hundred and ten years.

(h) "addat", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. (i) Apud. Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 19. p. 421. (k) Shalshal. ibid.

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Dina, "judgment," like Dan. God hath done me justice. The Hebrews assert that Dina was married to holy Job. She was born the same year as Joseph, the 91st of Jacob. Lia brought forth seven children in seven years.

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21. Dinah — Which means, judgment; kindred to the name Dan. Gen_30:6. Some suppose, from the language of Gen_37:35; Gen_46:7, that Jacob had other daughters. This is possible, and yet the word may, in those passages, refer to daughters-in-law. So full a narrative of Jacob’s family would not have been likely to omit mention of any child of his.

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And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah i.e. Judgment. Dinah (the female Dan) may not have been Jacob"s only daughter. (vide Gen_37:35 Gen_46:7) Her name is here recorded probably because of the incident in her history afterwards related. (Gen_34:1)

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Mention is made, of Dinah, because of the following story concerning her, chap. xxxiv, 1-16, &c. Perhaps Jacob had other daughters, though not registered.

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דינה DINAH (Judgment) — Our Rabbis explained, that Leah set herself up as judge (דנה) against herself saying: “If this be a son, my sister Rachel cannot be even the equal of any of the handmaids”. She, therefore, offered prayer regarding it, and its sex was changed (Berakhot 60a).

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ואחר ילדה בת, it would appear that originally Dinah was meant to become Zevulun’s twin (brother). This is why the Torah wrote ואחר ילדה בת, without making any mention of Leah again becoming pregnant. The Torah did not even write ותלד עוד. No mention is made of why she named the girl Dinah. There is a well known aggadic explanation that Leah did not want her sister to be shamed in having fewer sons than even the handmaids; her prayer to that effect was answered by this fetus becoming a girl.

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