TBESH · H9009
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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/ה (ha) means “[the]” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ha STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
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He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.20
You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.21
So Jacob’s gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.22
He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.24
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.25
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.27
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.31
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.32
Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.33
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
Read word by wordHe put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Read word by wordWhen Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
Read word by wordThen the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
Read word by word“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
Read word by wordBut Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
Read word by wordPlease let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
Read word by word“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Read word by wordSo that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
Read word by wordbut Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
Read word by wordAfter Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
Read word by wordAnd the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
Read word by wordNow Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Read word by wordWhen Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
Read word by wordAnd his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
Read word by wordSo Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
Read word by wordWhen Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
Read word by wordYou may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”
Read word by wordDemand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
Read word by word“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
Read word by wordThe young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
Read word by word“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.
Read word by wordBut only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.
Read word by wordThree days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Read word by wordJacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
Read word by wordThen Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Read word by wordThen God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Read word by wordSo Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Read word by wordThen let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Read word by wordSo they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
Read word by wordAs they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
Read word by wordSo Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordThere 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.
Read word by wordNow Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.
Read word by wordThe land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
Read word by wordJacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Read word by wordLater, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Read word by wordDuring her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
Read word by wordJacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
Read word by wordWhile Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Read word by wordEsau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
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