King James Version
Genesis 28:8 in the King James Version says “And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; pleased: Heb. were evil in the eyes, etc” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; pleased: Heb. were evil in the eyes, etc”
Genesis 28:8 · KJV
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, 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;
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; pleased: Heb. were evil in the eyes, etc
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. Mahalath: or, Bashemath
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. Haran: Gr. Charran
KJV Study — Public Domain
“seeing”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that the daughters”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
“pleased”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“his father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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