King James Version
Genesis 30:39 in the King James Version says “And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.”
Genesis 30:39 · KJV
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.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the flocks”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
“before the rods”
H4731a shoot, i.e., stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
“and brought forth”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
“And the flocks”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
“and spotted”
H2921properly, to cover with pieces; i.e., (by implication) to spot or variegate (as tapestry)
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