Genesis 34:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

World English Bible · Public Domain

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1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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נֵא֣וֹת

ʼûwth

H225

“to agree”

Verb, Niphal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 53

(Niphal) to consent, agree

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 →

11: words
9: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is נֵא֣וֹת to agree H225 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

נֵא֣וֹת to agree H225

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נֵא֣וֹת to agree H225 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
1 noun
1 adjective
1 pronoun
3 prepositions
1 conjunction
1 particle

Verb forms

נֵא֣וֹת Niphal · Imperfect
תִּהְי֣וּ Qal · Imperfect
לְהִמֹּ֥ל Niphal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 29 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 20 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

Topical passages linked to Genesis 34:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Galatians 4:12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

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.

Hebrew Genesis 34:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אַךְ בְּזֹ֖את נֵא֣וֹת לָכֶ֑ם אִ֚ם תִּהְי֣וּ כָמֹ֔נוּ לְהִמֹּ֥ל לָכֶ֖ם כָּל זָכָֽר

Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 34:15 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐν οὗτος ὁμοιόω σύ καί καταοἰκέω ἐν σύ ἐάν γίγνομαι ὡς ἐγώ καί σύ ἐν ὁ περιτέμνω σύ πᾶς ἀρσενικός

Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell among you, if you⌃ also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised.

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

בְּרַם בְּדָא נִתְפֵּס לְכוֹן אִם תֶּהֱווֹן כְּוָתָנָא לְמִגְזַר לְכוֹן כָּל דְּכוּרָא

(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)

בְּרַם בְּדָא נִתְפַּיֵיס לְכוֹן אִין תֶּהֱווֹן כְּוָתָנָא לְמִגְזַר לְכוֹן כָּל דְכוּרָא

But in this we will accede to you, if you will be as we are by circumcising every male.

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 34:15 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

Gen 34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we [be], that every male of you be circumcised;

Ver. 15. That every male of you be circumcised.] Lo, herein was their deceit. How often is religion pretended, made a stale and stalking-horse to worldly and wicked aims and respects! A horrible profanation: as when Naboth was put to death at a fast; Henry VII, Emperor, poisoned in the sacramental bread, by a monk. Herod pretends to worship Christ; intends to worry him, &c. "From such stand off," saith St Paul; {1Ti 6:5} or, if ye come near them, "set a mark upon them". {Rom 16:17-18} Foenum habet in cornu.

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.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Their fault is the greater in that they make religion a cloak for their craft.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

John Gill's Exposition

But in this will we consent unto you,.... Upon the following condition, that Dinah should be given in marriage:

if ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; as the sons of Jacob were, according to the command given to Abraham their great grandfather, Gen 17:10.

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)

נאות לכם means WE WILL CONSENT UNTO YOU: it has the same meaning as (2 Kings 12:9) ויאותו “and they consented”.

להמול means TO BE CIRCUMCISED — It is not an active infinitive (Kal), but a passive infinitive (Niphal).

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.

Radak

Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)

אך...נאות, we would be willing.

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.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼûwth (“to agree”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to agree” (ʼûwth) contribute to the verse as a whole?
This is the first place “to agree” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does Genesis 34:22, which shares the word «to agree», read alongside this verse?
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?
«נֵא֣וֹת» is a Niphal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 20 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.