What Does Genesis 34:5 Mean?

“And Jacob”

jaakob, the israelitish patriarch

“heard”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“that he had defiled”

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“Dinah”

dinah, the daughter of jacob

“his daughter”

a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)

“now his sons”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

“were with his cattle”

something bought, i.e., property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition

“in the field”

a field (as flat)

“held his peace”

to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad

“And Jacob”

jaakob, the israelitish patriarch

as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)

“until they were come”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)