Genesis 36:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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דִּנְהָֽבָה

Dinhâbâh

H1838

“Dinhabah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of uncertain derivation

TWOT: None

Dinhabah = "give thou judgement" - capital city of Bela, king of Edom

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 →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is דִּנְהָֽבָה Dinhabah H1838 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

בְּע֑וֹר Beor H1160
דִּנְהָֽבָה Dinhabah H1838

Shared distinctive vocabulary

דִּנְהָֽבָה Dinhabah H1838 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

1 Chronicles 1:43

Grammatical profile

1 verb
7 nouns

Verb forms

וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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 36:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ בֶּאֱד֔וֹם בֶּ֖לַע בֶּן בְּע֑וֹר וְשֵׁ֥ם עִיר֖וֹ דִּנְהָֽבָה

Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 36:32 Septuagint · lemma form

καί βασιλεύω ἐν εδωμ βαλακ υἱός ὁ βεωρ καί ὄνομα ὁ πόλις αὐτός δενναβα

And Balac, son of Beor, reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dennaba.

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)

וּמְלַךְ בֶּאֱדוֹם בֶּלַע בַּר בְּעוֹר וְשׁוּם קַרְתֵּהּ דִּנְהָבָה

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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)

וּמְלַךְ בֶּאֱדוֹם בֶּלַע בַּר בְּעוֹר וְשׁוּם קַרְתָּא דְבֵית מַלְכוּתֵיהּ דִנְהָבָא

In Edom reigned Bileam. the son of Behor, and the name of the city of the house of his kingdom was Dinhaba.

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 36:32 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

32. Bela the son of Beor] In the Hebrew the addition of the letter m would give us the proper name “Balaam the son of Beor” (Num_22:5). So Targum of Jonathan reads. Hence some have conjectured that we have here an alternative tradition respecting Balaam, as king of Edom.

Bela is also the name of a town, Zoar (Gen_14:2).

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

And Samlah died,.... As is supposed, about A. M. 2283.

and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead; Rehoboth was one of the cities built by Ashur, Gen 10:11; and was situated near the river Euphrates; and so the Targum of Jonathan calls it Rehoboth which is by Euphrates; but Jerom (n), from Eusebius, takes it to be another city by a river in Edom, and says, that there was in his days a garrison in the country of Gabalena (a part of Idumea), a large village called by that name.

(n) De loc. Heb. fol. 93. M. & 94. A.

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

Where he was born or dwelt, and so in the rest. The diversity of their cities makes it probable, that these kings had not their power by succession, but either by election, or by usurpation, according to Isaac’s prophecy of them, Gen 27:40; By thy sword thou shalt live.

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 Bela the son of Beor cf. Gen_14:2, where Bela is the name for Zoar; and Num_22:5, where Balaam"s father is called Beer, whence the LXX has here Balok reigned in Edom (as the first sore-reign): and the name of his city was Dinha-bah or "Little Place" (Furst); a place of plunder (Gesenius), the situation of which has not been identified.

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

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Dinhâbâh (“Dinhabah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Dinhabah” (Dinhâbâh) shape what this verse is saying?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
1 Chronicles 1:43 shares the word «Dinhabah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The verb «וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
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

2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.