Genesis 31:1 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 31:1

Jacob Flees from Laban

1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this ^awealth.”

2 And Jacob saw the ^acountenance of Laban, and indeed it was not ^bfavorable toward him as before.

3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, ^a“Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will ^bbe with you.”

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Genesis 31:1

The verb glorify means to give glory to someone or to something. It is to bestow honor and praise or renown on someone. In Hebrew there are two nouns, which the translators typically render as glory in our translations. Interestingly, both of those nouns appear in Exodus 28:2. God is speaking to Moses and states “Make holy garments for your brother Aaron for glory and for beauty.” The two nouns are glory and beauty. The first noun translated as glory is Strong’s 3519. Its root means “heavy” and it is sometimes translated as rich or wealthy. A rich person is heavy with gold. I think Vines mentions that. As an example, though we will not turn there, you can check Genesis 31:1 in the Amplified Version and here the Hebrew word, which the King James Version translates as glory, is rendered as wealth or honor. In some other versions it is rendered as riches. Strong’s 3519 means splendor and honor.

Excerpted from Of Snowflakes and Suns and Glory by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)

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