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Genesis 35:8

Genesis 35:8 is verse 8 of Genesis chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

Or great tree

Allon-bacuth means oak of weeping.

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King James Version

But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

World English Bible

Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

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Genesis 35:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

9 After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

10 And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

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Hebrew words

וַתָּ֤מָתand she diedדְּבֹרָה֙Deborahמֵינֶ֣קֶת[the] suckling-nurse ofרִבְקָ֔הRebekahוַתִּקָּבֵ֛רand she was buriedמִתַּ֥חַתfrom underלְבֵֽיתto Beth-אֵ֖ל-elתַּ֣חַתunderהָֽאַלּ֑וֹןthe oakוַיִּקְרָ֥אand someone calledשְׁמ֖וֹname itsאַלּ֥וֹןבָּכֽוּתBacuth

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 24:59

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

1 Samuel 31:13

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

Judges 2:1

Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

Judges 2:5

So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.

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