Genesis 49:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

World English Bible · Public Domain

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חֵֽת

Chêth

H2845

“Heth”

Noun, Proper

Appears 14× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 10:15

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2865

TWOT: 776

Heth = "terror" - a son of Canaan and the progenitor of the Hittites

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
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חֵֽת Heth H2845 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֵֽת Heth H2845 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
2 prepositions
1 particle

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 15 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 49:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 23:17–20 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border of it round about, were made sure

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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 49:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מִקְנֵ֧ה הַשָּׂדֶ֛ה וְהַמְּעָרָ֥ה אֲשֶׁר בּ֖וֹ מֵאֵ֥ת בְּנֵי חֵֽת

the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 49:32 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐν κτῆσις ὁ ἀγρός καί ὁ σπήλαιον ὁ εἰμί ἐν αὐτός παρά ὁ υἱός χετ

in the portion of the field, and of the cave that was in it, purchased of the sons of Chet.

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)

זְבִינֵי חַקְלָא וּמְעַרְתָּא דִי בֵהּ מִן בְּנֵי חִתָּאָהּ

(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)

זְבִינֵי חַקְלָא וּמְעַרְתָּא דְבֵיהּ מִן בְּנֵי חִתָּאָה

the purchase of the field, and the cave that it is in, of the sons of Hitah.

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 49:32 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children of Heth.

Ver. 32. The purchase of the field, &c.] {See Trapp on "Gen 49:30"}

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. Kalisch connects the present verse with the 30th, and reads ver. 31 as a parenthesis.

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

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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chêth (“Heth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Heth” (Chêth) shape what this verse is saying?
Genesis 10:15 shares the word «Heth» 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 Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.