King James Version
Genesis 30:36 in the King James Version says “And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.”
Genesis 30:36 · KJV
And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And he set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“journey”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“fed”
H7462to tend a flock; i.e., pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frie
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“flocks”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
“the rest”
H3498to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively to leave, cause to abound, preserve
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