Genesis 35:8

But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Deborah	דְּבֹרָה֙ de.vo.Rah	H1683	Deborah · proper noun, a woman's name
Rebekah’s	רִבְקָ֔ה riv.Kah	H7259	Ribkah · proper noun, a woman's name
nurse	מֵינֶ֣קֶת mei.Ne.ket	H3243	to suck · noun, common feminine singular construct
died	וַתָּ֤מָת va.Ta.mot	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
buried	וַתִּקָּבֵ֛ר va.ti.ka.Ver	H6912	to inter · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
Beth-el	לְבֵֽית le.veit-	H1008	Beth-El · preposition + proper noun, a place name
oak	הָֽאַלּ֑וֹן ha.'a.Lon	H437	an oak or other strong tree · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
name	שְׁמ֖וֹ she.Mo	H8034	an appellation · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
called	וַיִּקְרָ֥א vai.yik.Ra'	H7121	to call out to (i.e. properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Allon-bachuth	אַלּ֥וֹן 'a.Lon	H439	Allon-Bakuth · proper noun, a place name

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Cross-references

Genesis 24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
1 Samuel 31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Judges 2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which…
Judges 2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:6-15

Jacob and his retinue having safely arrived at Bethel, we are here told what passed there. I. There he built an altar (Gen 35:7), and no doubt offered sacrifice upon it, perhaps the tenth of his cattle, according to his vow, I will give the tenth unto thee. With these sacrifices he joined praises for former mercies, particularly that which the sight of the place brought afresh to his remembrance; and he added prayers for the continuance of God's favour to him and his family. And he called the place (that is, the altar) El-beth-el, the God of Bethel. As, when he made a thankful acknowledgment of the honour God had lately done him in calling him Israel, he worshipped God by the name of El-eloh…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 35:8

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died--This event seems to have taken place before the solemnities were commenced. Deborah (Hebrew, a "bee"), supposing her to have been fifty years on coming to Canaan, had attained the great age of a hundred eighty. When she was removed from Isaac's household to Jacob's, is unknown. But it probably was on his return from Mesopotamia; and she would have been of invaluable service to his young family. Old nurses, like her, were not only honored, but loved as mothers; and, accordingly, her death was the occasion of great lamentation. She was buried under the oak--hence called "the terebinth of tears" (compare Kg1 13:14). God was pleased to make a new appearance to him…

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Adam Clarke on Genesis 35:8

But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died - She was sent with Rebekah when taken by Abraham's servant to be wife to Isaac, Gen 24:59. How she came to be in Jacob's family, expositors are greatly puzzled to find out; but the text does not state that she was in Jacob's family. Her death is mentioned merely because Jacob and his family had now arrived at the place where she was buried, and the name of that place was called Allon-bachuth, "the oak of weeping," as it is likely her death had been greatly regretted, and a general and extraordinary mourning had taken place on the occasion. Of Rebekah's death we know nothing. After her counsel to her son, Gen 27:5-17, Gen 27:42-46, we hear no more of her hi…

The Church Fathers

(Verse 8) And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died and was buried near Bethel. If the nurse of Rebekah named Deborah is dead, as the Septuagint interpreters also translated here, and the Hebrew word is Meneketh: we cannot know why they put 'substantiam' there, 'nutricem' here.
— Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis

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Dictionary and topics

Allon — Oak. (1.) The expression in the Authorized Version of Josh. 19:33, “from Allon to Zaanannim,” is more correctly rendered in the Revised Version, “from the oak in Zaanannim.” The word denotes some…
Allon-bachuth — Oak of weeping, a tree near Bethel, at the spot where Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, was buried (Gen. 35:8). Large trees, from their rarity in the plains of Palestine, were frequently designated as…
Bethel — House of God. (1.) A place in Central Palestine, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz (Gen. 28:19). The…
Burial — The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron “four…
Deborah — A bee. (1.) Rebekah’s nurse. She accompanied her mistress when she left her father’s house in Padan-aram to become the wife of Isaac (Gen. 24:59). Many years afterwards she died at Bethel, and was…
Funeral — Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of corpses (Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 35:8, 9, etc.). The first traces of burning the dead are found in 1 Sam. 31:12. The burning of the body was affixed…
Mourn — Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Gen. 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel for Aaron…
Tabor — A height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive…
Allon-Bachuth · Place where Rebekah was buried — Place where Rebekah was buried
Beth-El · .And builds an altar at — .And builds an altar at

Genesis 35:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:6-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 35:8

Adam Clarke on Genesis 35:8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 35:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:6-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 35:8

Adam Clarke on Genesis 35:8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Genesis 35:8

John Calvin on Genesis 35:8

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 35:8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 35:6-7

Rashi on Genesis 35:8