The Bible — notes and cross-references in Genesis | Interpretation and commentary to chapter 30

30:1^a children

Gen. 29:31
30:2^a withheld

cf. Gen. 16:2; 1 Sam. 1:5
30:3^a Bilhah

Gen. 29:29
30:3^1b have

cf. Gen. 16:2

Lit., be built up.
30:6^1a Dan

Gen. 49:16-18

Meaning judging.
30:8¹ In

Or, with mighty wrestlings.
30:8^2a Naphtali

Gen. 49:21

Meaning my wrestling.
30:9^a Zilpah

Gen. 29:24
30:11^1a Gad

Gen. 49:19

Meaning, perhaps, (good) fortune.
30:13^1a blessed

cf. Luke 1:48

See note Gen. 30:13¹.
30:13¹ Happy

In Hebrew the words happy and blessed are from the same root.
30:13^2b Asher

Gen. 49:20

Meaning happy, or blessed.
30:14^a mandrakes

S.S. 7:13
30:18^1a Issachar

Gen. 49:14-15

Meaning hire.
30:20¹ dwell

Or, honor me.
30:20^2a Zebulun

Gen. 49:13

Meaning honoring, exaltation, or exalted dwelling.
30:22^a remembered

cf. 1 Sam. 1:19
30:22^b opened

cf. Gen. 29:31; Psa. 127:3
30:23^a reproach

Luke 1:25; cf. Isa. 4:1
30:24^1a Joseph

Gen. 37:2; 49:22-26

Meaning adding.
30:24^b another

Gen. 35:17
30:26^a served

Gen. 29:20, 30
30:29¹ Jacob

Lit., he.
30:35¹ Laban

Lit., he.
30:43^a flocks

cf. Gen. 24:35; 26:13-14