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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Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
Read word by wordAs evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
Read word by word“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Read word by wordHere I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Read word by wordNow may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Read word by wordNow the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
Read word by wordSo the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
Read word by wordAnd she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.
Read word by wordAnd after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Read word by wordThen the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,
Read word by wordThe girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
Read word by wordNow Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Read word by wordAs soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
Read word by word“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
Read word by wordSo the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.
Read word by wordMy master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,
Read word by wordThen I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
Read word by wordSo when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
Read word by wordHere I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
Read word by wordand she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.
Read word by wordAnd before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
Read word by wordShe quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
Read word by wordThen I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
Read word by wordLaban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
Read word by wordThen he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.
Read word by wordThen he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
Read word by wordBut her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
Read word by wordThey called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.
Read word by wordThen Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Read word by wordNow Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
Read word by wordAnd when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
Read word by wordand asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Read word by wordThen the servant told Isaac all that he had done.
Read word by wordAnd Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Read word by wordBut while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Read word by wordHis sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Read word by wordThis was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Read word by wordThis is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
Read word by wordand Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Read word by wordBut the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
Read word by wordThe first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Read word by wordWhen the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
Read word by wordOne day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Read word by wordHe said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
Read word by wordThen Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Read word by wordNow there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Read word by wordStay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Read word by wordI will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
Read word by wordBut when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
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