Genesis 36:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

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דִּשֹׁ֑ן

Dîyshôwn

H1787

“Dishon”

Noun, Proper

Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 36:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H1788

TWOT: None

Dishon = "thresher" - the fifth son of Seir - the son of Anah and grandson of Seir

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
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is דִּשֹׁ֑ן Dishon H1787 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

דִּשֹׁ֑ן Dishon H1787 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns
1 pronoun

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עֲנָ֖ה Anah H6034 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 9 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 36:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Genesis 36:5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36:14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36:18 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
1 Chronicles 1:41 The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Genesis 36:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֵ֥לֶּה בְנֵֽי עֲנָ֖ה דִּשֹׁ֑ן וְאָהֳלִיבָמָ֖ה בַּת עֲנָֽה

These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 36:25 Septuagint · lemma form

οὗτος δέ υἱός ανα δησων καί ελιβεμα θυγάτηρ ανα

And these are the sons of Ana; Deson—and Olibema was daughter of Ana.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, John Gill's Exposition 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)

וְאִלֵּין בְּנֵי עֲנָה דִּשֹׁן וְאָהֳלִיבָמָה בַּת עֲנָה

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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)

וְאִלֵין בְּנֵי עֲנָה דִשוֹן וְאָהֳלִיבָמָה בַּת עֲנָה

And these are the children of Anah: Dishon; and Ahalibama was the daughter of Anah.

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 36:25 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

25. Anah] This is the clan of Anah of Gen_36:20, and probably also of Gen_36:24.

Oholibamah] See Gen_36:2. Probably the words “the daughter of Anah” have been carelessly inserted from Gen_36:2 as a gloss.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

These are the dukes that came of the Horites,.... Not that succeeded one after another, as the kings next mentioned did, but were together, at the same time, heads of respective families, and governors of them; and then the seven sons of Seir are rehearsed in this verse and Gen 36:30 in their order, with the title of "duke" annexed to each of them, "Duke Lotan", &c.

in their order, with the title of "duke" annexed to each of them, "Duke Lotan", &c.

Genesis 36:30

gen 36:30

gen 36:30

gen 36:30These are the dukes that came of Hori,.... The ancestor of Seir, whence he is called the Horite, unless the singular is put for the plural, used in Gen 36:29,

among their dukes in the land of Seir; not that there were other dukes besides them in the land of Seir until Esau got among them, but these were they whose habitations were before in the land of Gabla (or Seir); as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it; or "in", or "according to their dukedoms", as the Septuagint version; in their respective families where they had the government, and which became very numerous.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The children, Heb. sons, though but one son be mentioned. Either then he had other sons not here expressed; or the plural number is put for the singular, as Gen 21:7.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And the children of Anah the brother of Zibeon (ver. 20) were these; Dishon, named after his uncle (ver. 21) and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah. This Aholibamah was not Esau"s wife, but the cousin of Esau"s wife"s father.

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

Anah ... Dishon ... Ezer ... Dishan

These are names of men. See how you translated these names in Genesis 36:20-21.

Oholibamah

This is the name of a woman. (See: How to Translate Names)

Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran ... Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan ... Uz and Aran

These are names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

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

Ramban (Nachmanides)

Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)

AND THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF ANAH: DISHON AND OHOLIBAMAH THE DAUGHTER OF ANAH. Such is the way of Scripture when referring to daughters, as in the expression, and his daughter Dinah. Now this Anah was the fourth son of Se’ir the Horite, enumerated above, after Zibeon his brother, for the section enumerates seven sons of Se’ir the Horite in the order of their birth. This Anah had another son also called by the name Dishon as was his uncle, and he had a daughter called Oholibamah, which was also the name of her relative, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon. This is why Scripture says concerning Esau’s wife, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, in order to relate that she was the daughter of Anah who had found the mules, and granddaughter of Zibeon, not Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the son of Se’ir the Horite, Zibeon’s brother. However, in the opinion of some of our Rabbis there is in this entire section only one man called Anah, and he was Zibeon’s son. Since Zibeon committed incest with his mother, the wife of Se’ir the Horite, Scripture thus enumerates Anah among Se’ir the Horite’s sons because people considered him as Se’ir’s son and called him “Anah the son of Se’ir,” and he grew up among his sons because Se’ir thought he was his son. Scripture, however, enumerates him a second time as Zibeon’s son in keeping with the true facts. This is the interpretation of the symbolizing interpreters as is mentioned in Tractate Pesachim, but it is not the consensus of opinion in the Gemara and is not at all the plain meaning of Scripture.

Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Dîyshôwn (“Dishon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Dishon” (Dîyshôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Genesis 36:21 shares the word «Dishon» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Anah” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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?
Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“Anah” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.