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 The Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
 
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**famine.** Accounts for Esau's despair of living, and hence selling his birthright. [Genesis 25:29-34](../../../kjv/genesis/25/29-34) .
**first.** One of the thirteen famines. See note on [Genesis 12:10](../../../kjv/genesis/12/10) .
**Abimelech** = official name. Not the same as [Genesis 20:2](../../../kjv/genesis/20/2) .

**Go not down** (as Abraham did, [Genesis 12:10](../../../kjv/genesis/12/10) ).

**Unto thee.** So to each Patriarch: Abraham ([Genesis 13:15](../../../kjv/genesis/13/15) ), Jacob ([Genesis 28:13](../../../kjv/genesis/28/13) , &c), involving resurrection. See note on [Genesis 50:24](../../../kjv/genesis/50/24) , and [Matthew 22:23-33](../../../kjv/matthew/22/23-33) .

**stars.** Figure of speech *Paroemia.* App-6 .

**My.** Repeated 5 times for emphasis. The No. of Grace. See App-10
**voice,** to be heard and believed ([Romans 10:17](../../../kjv/romans/10/17) ).
**charge,** to be observed.
**commandments,** to he obeyed.
**statutes,** i.e. decrees, to be acknowledged.
**laws,** i.e. instructions to be followed.

**he said.** As Abraham had said ([Genesis 12:13](../../../kjv/genesis/12/13) ; [Genesis 20:2](../../../kjv/genesis/20/2) , [Genesis 20:12](../../../kjv/genesis/20/12) ).
**sister.** See note on [Genesis 20:12](../../../kjv/genesis/20/12) .

**sporting with,** or caressing

**What . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**guiltiness.** See App-15 and App-44 .

**saying.** One of the Laws given and observed before Moses.

**received.** Hebrew found. Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of the Species). Compare [Genesis 6:8](../../../kjv/genesis/6/8) . [Romans 4:1](../../../kjv/romans/4/1) .

**store** = body.

**in the days of Abraham his father.** Isaac a placid character; shown by his obedience ([Genesis 22:6](../../../kjv/genesis/22/6) , [Genesis 22:8](../../../kjv/genesis/22/8) ), his meekness in betrothal (24), his mourning for his mother ([Genesis 24:63-67](../../../kjv/genesis/24/63-67) ; compare note on Gen 26:63 ), his following in his father's steps to Gerar ([Genesis 20:1](../../../kjv/genesis/20/1) ) in denying his wife there (20), his finding an Abimelech and Phichol there, and digging wells there, renewing the oath and renaming the well.
**their names.** Compare the four names below and their special meaning.

**well.** Hebrew. *'ayin.* See note on [Genesis 21:19](../../../kjv/genesis/21/19) .
**springing.** Hebrew living. See note on [Genesis 21:19](../../../kjv/genesis/21/19) .

**Esek.** Hebrew strife or contention.

**Sitnah.** Hebrew opposition.

**Rehoboth.** Hebrew roominess.

**Beer-sheba.** Hebrew the well of the oath.

**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**Phichol** Probably an official military title. Compare [Genesis 21:22](../../../kjv/genesis/21/22) .

**saw certainly.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ), for emphasis. Hebrew "seeing we saw". Compare [Genesis 2:16](../../../kjv/genesis/2/16) " *freely* eat"; [Genesis 27:30](../../../kjv/genesis/27/30) " *scarce* gone out"; [Genesis 43:3](../../../kjv/genesis/43/3) " *solemnly* protest"; [Genesis 43:7](../../../kjv/genesis/43/7) "asked us *straitly* ", "could we *certainly* know"; [Genesis 43:20](../../../kjv/genesis/43/20) "came *indeed* down"; [Exodus 5:23](../../../kjv/exodus/5/23) "not delivered us *at all* "; [Genesis 18:18](../../../kjv/genesis/18/18) "wilt *surely* wear away"; [Genesis 21:5](../../../kjv/genesis/21/5) "shall *plainly* say"; [Job 37:2](../../../kjv/job/37/2) "hear *attentively* "; [Numbers 22:17](../../../kjv/numbers/22/17) , [Numbers 22:37](../../../kjv/numbers/22/37) "promote thee to very great honour" = honouring I will honour thee; [Genesis 24:10](../../../kjv/genesis/24/10) " *altogether* blessed", Hebrew "blessing thou hast blessed". [Numbers 26:65](../../../kjv/numbers/26/65) ; [Numbers 30:12](../../../kjv/numbers/30/12) " *utterly* destroyed"; [Genesis 23:11](../../../kjv/genesis/23/11) ; [Genesis 24:10](../../../kjv/genesis/24/10) " *altogether* blessed".

**touched.** Figure of speech *Tapeinosis.* App-6 . Emphasizing the fact that so far from injuring him in any way they had shown him favour.

**Shebah.** Hebrew an oath.
**therefore.** Same name given by Abraham ([Genesis 21:31](../../../kjv/genesis/21/31) ). Names were sometimes reimposed for a new reason. Compare Bethel ([Genesis 28:18](../../../kjv/genesis/28/18) , [Genesis 28:19](../../../kjv/genesis/28/19) with [Genesis 35:6](../../../kjv/genesis/35/6) , [Genesis 35:7](../../../kjv/genesis/35/7) ) and Israel ([Genesis 32:28](../../../kjv/genesis/32/28) with [Genesis 35:10](../../../kjv/genesis/35/10) ).

These names exhibit the Figure of speech. *Polynyrmia.* App-6 .
**Judith,** She had a second name, Aholibamah ([Genesis 36:5](../../../kjv/genesis/36/5) , [Genesis 36:14](../../../kjv/genesis/36/14) , [Genesis 36:25](../../../kjv/genesis/36/25) ).
**Beeri.** His name was also Anah, but he had acquired the name "Beeri" (or the spring-man) from his having discovered the hot springs. See on [Genesis 36:24](../../../kjv/genesis/36/24) .
**Hittite** = the general name. See note on [1 Kings 10:29](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/29) .
**Bashematti** had a second name, Adah. The name Bashemath dropped in [Genesis 36:2](../../../kjv/genesis/36/2) to avoid confusion with the daughter of Ishmael. In [Genesis 26](../../../kjv/genesis/26) : we have general *history,* but in [Genesis 36](../../../kjv/genesis/36) precise *genealogy.*

**grief.** Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), grief put for that which caused it. No wonder it caused "bitterness of spirit" when we remember who the Canaanites were.
**mind** = spirit. Hebrew. *ruach.* See App-9 .

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