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Genesis 33

Gen. 33:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
to Shalem
Shalem (Hebrew #8004)
peaceful; Shalem, an early name of Jerusalem
KJV usage: Salem.
Pronounce: shaw-lame'
Origin: the same as 8003
a, a city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
of μShechem
Shkem (Hebrew #7927)
ridge; Shekem, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Shechem.
Pronounce: shek-em'
Origin: the same as 7926
, which is in the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Canaan
Kna`an (Hebrew #3667)
humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
KJV usage: Canaan, merchant, traffick.
Pronounce: ken-ah'-an
Origin: from 3665
, when he came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
from Padan-aram
Paddan (Hebrew #6307)
a plateau; or Paddan pAram {pad-dan' ar-awm'}; from the same and 758; the table-land of Aram; Paddan or Paddan-Aram, a region of Syria
KJV usage: Padan, Padan-aram.
Pronounce: pad-dawn'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to extend
; and pitched his tent
chanah (Hebrew #2583)
properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)
KJV usage: abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.
Pronounce: khaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2603)
before
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
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John 3:23• 23And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. (John 3:23)
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Acts 7:15• 15So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, (Acts 7:15)
, called Sychem.

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Canaan,
Jacob,
Padan; Padan-aram,
Shalem,
Shechem,
Tent

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Shalem.The word {Shalem,} in the Samaritan {Shalom,} should probably be rendered "in peace," or "in safety;" as it is translated by the Chaldee, Arabic, Coverdale, and Matthewes.
John 3:23• 23And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. (John 3:23)
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John 4:5• 5Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. (John 4:5)
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Acts 7:16• 16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem. (Acts 7:16)
a city of Shechem.Or, rather, "the city Shechem," which was situated in a narrow valley, abounding with springs, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, having the former on the north, and the latter on the south; 10 miles from Shiloh, and 34 from Jerusalem.
It became the capital of Samaria, after the ruin of the city of that name.
Josh. 24:1• 1And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. (Josh. 24:1)
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Judg. 9:1• 1And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, (Judg. 9:1)
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John 4:5• 5Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. (John 4:5)
Sychar.
Acts 7:16• 16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem. (Acts 7:16)
Sychem.
Padan-aram.
Gen. 25:20• 20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. (Gen. 25:20)
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Gen. 28:6‑7• 6When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
 7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; (Gen. 28:6‑7)
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Gen. 35:9• 9And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. (Gen. 35:9)
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Gen. 46:15• 15These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. (Gen. 46:15)
• For "in peace" is in contrast with his perturbation of mind through dread of Esau between Peniel and Succoth. (“Jacob: 13. Succoth and Shechem” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jacob came safelyc to the city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "to Shalem."