Genesis 46:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

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רָחֵל֙

Râchêl

H7354

“Rachel”

Noun, Proper

Appears 47× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 29:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H7353

TWOT: None

Rachel = "ewe" - daughter of Laban, wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

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 →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

רָחֵל֙ Rachel H7354 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 8 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 46:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 44:27 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
Genesis 29:18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
Genesis 30:24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."
Genesis 35:16–18 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 37:1–36 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 39:1–40:23 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
Genesis 47:1–31 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

Genesis 49:22–27 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, A fruitful vine by a spring; His branches run over the wall.
Genesis 50:1–14 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.
Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exodus 1:5 All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Numbers 1:36–37 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Numbers 26:38–41 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
Deuteronomy 33:12–17 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him; He covers him all the day long, He dwells between his shoulders.
1 Chronicles 2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Genesis 46:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֤י רָחֵל֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב יוֹסֵ֖ף וּבִנְיָמִֽן

The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 46:19 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός δέ ραχηλ γυνή ἰακώβ ιωσηφ καί βενιαμίν

And the sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob; Joseph, and Benjamin.

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)

בְּנֵי רָחֵל אִתַּת יַעֲקֹב יוֹסֵף וּבִנְיָמִן

(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)

בְּנוֹי רָחֵל אִיתַּת יַעֲקב יוֹסֵף וּבִנְיָמִין

The sons of Rahel, wife of Jakob, Joseph and Benjamin.

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 46:19 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 →

John Gill's Exposition

These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob,.... That is, sons and grandsons:

all the souls were fourteen; two sons, Joseph and Benjamin; twelve grandsons, two of Joseph's, and ten of Benjamin's.

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 sons of Rachel Jacob"s wife; (cf. Gen_44:27) Joseph and Benjamin.

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

Asenath

a woman's name. See how you translated this in Genesis 41:45. (See: How to Translate Names)

Potiphera

a man's name. See how you translated this in Genesis 41:45. (See: How to Translate Names)

priest of On

On is a city, also called Heliopolis, which was "the City of the Sun" and the center of worship of the sun god Ra. See how you translated this in Genesis 41:45. (See: How to Translate Names)

Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard

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

fourteen in all

This refers to the 14 sons and grandsons related to Rachel. (See: Numbers)

translationWords

Jacob

Rachel

Joseph (OT)

Benjamin

Egypt

Manasseh

Ephraim

priest

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

בני רחל אשת יעקב THE SONS OF RACHEL, JACOB’S WIFE — In the case of all the other wives of Jacob the term אשת “wife” is not mentioned. But the reason is because she was the chief mistress of the household (Genesis Rabbah 73:1).

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.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

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

Discussion questions

The word Râchêl carries the sense “Rachel.” How does it shape the verse?
Genesis 29:6 shares the word «Rachel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Reading how John Gill's Exposition and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.