Gen 30:37-43 | TSK | STEP | Jacob. green poplar.{Livneh} is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from {lavan} to be white. hasel.Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that {luz} is not the "hazel" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac. chestnut tree.The Heb. word {armon,} signifies "the plane-tree," so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root {aram,} signifies.

Genesis 30:37-43

Jacob.

green poplar.{Livneh} is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from {lavan} to be white.

hasel.Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that {luz} is not the "hazel" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac.

chestnut tree.The Heb. word {armon,} signifies "the plane-tree," so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root {aram,} signifies.

Eze 31:8

brought forth.

31:9-12,38,40,42; Ex 12:35,36

whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive.As the means which Jacob used would not in general produce similar effects, nay, probably the experiment was never in any other instance tried with effect, it is more in harmony with Divine truth to suppose that he was directed by some Divine intimation; and rendered successful, if not by a direct miracle, yet at least by the Lord's giving a new and uncommon bias to the tendency of natural causes.

30; 13:2; 24:35; 26:13,14; 28:15; 31:7,8,42; 32:10; 33:11; 36:7; Ec 2:7

Eze 39:10The Lord will, in one way or other, honour those who simply trust his providence.