King James Version
Genesis 30:42 in the King James Version says “But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.”
Genesis 30:42 · KJV
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.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
And the man increased exceedingly , and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
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“so the feebler”
H5848to shroud, i.e., clothe (whether transitive or reflexive); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
“But when the cattle”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“he put them not in”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“so the feebler”
H5848to shroud, i.e., clothe (whether transitive or reflexive); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
“and the stronger”
H7194to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
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