He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
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He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
So he returned to Judah and said, “I did not find her. And also, the men of the place said, ‘There has not been a temple prostitute in this.’”
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He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, There hath been no prostitute here.
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, There hath been no harlot here.
He came therefore to Iudah againe, and said, I can not finde her, and also the men of the place said, There was no whore there.
asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the cross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this place,
And he turneth back unto Judah, and saith, `I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There hath not been in this `place' a separated one,'
And he turns back to Judah and says, “I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There has not been in this [place] a separated one,”
He returned to Judah and said, “I did not find her. Also, the men of the place said, 'There has not been a cultic prostitute here.'”
So he returned to Judah and said, “I did not find her. And also, the men of the place said, ‘There has not been a temple prostitute in this.’”
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, No prostitute has been here.
He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
Hirah went back to Judah and told him, “I couldn't find her, and the men there said, ‘There's no cult prostitute here.’”
So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.
And he returned to Judah, and said: 'I have not found her; and also the men of the place said: There hath been no harlot here.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קְדֵשָֽׁה female prostitute H6948 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קְדֵשָֽׁה female prostitute H6948 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 14 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.
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.
וַיָּ֨שָׁב֙ אֶל יְהוּדָ֔ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר לֹ֣א מְצָאתִ֑יהָ וְגַ֨ם אַנְשֵׁ֤י הַמָּקוֹם֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹא הָיְתָ֥ה בָזֶ֖ה קְדֵשָֽׁה
He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποστρέφω πρός ἰούδας καί εἶπον οὐ εὑρίσκω καί ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ ἐκ ὁ τόπος λέγω μή εἰμί ὧδε πόρνη
And he returned to Judas, and said, I have not found her; and the men of the place say, There is no harlot here.
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 →
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.
וְתָב לְוַת יְהוּדָה וַאֲמַר לָא אַשְׁכְּחִיתַהּ וְאַף אֲנָשֵׁי אַתְרָא אֲמָרוּ לֵית הָכָא מְקַדִּשְׁתָּא
(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.
וְתַב לְוַת יְהוּדָה וַאֲמַר לָא אַשְׁכְּחִיתָהּ וְאוּף אִינְשֵׁי אַתְרָא אֲמָרוּ לָא הֲוַת הָכָא מַטְעִיתָא
And he returned to Jehuda and said, I could not find her: and the men of the place also said that no harlot was there.
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.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qᵉdêshâh (“female prostitute”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 38:22 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.
John Gill's Exposition
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
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.