0 And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’
To have affection for
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21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
checed
{kheh’-sed} – Kindness
Mercy and Kindness
To love is to show kindness. To reach out and show kindness. Unwavering kindness. Dutifully firm. steady – firm – stable – constant – staunch – immovable
This type of love, I can really get behind. The kind of love that is steady, firm, constant, and immovable. I think that is one of the things that I am actually good at because of my personality type. showing loyalty. This is a quality of God. This is a quality i get from him in which i should rejoice and be thankful for. How do I show unwavering kindness to people in my life? – To reach out and show that kindness?
Joseph’s Dreams
37 Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colours.[a] 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
5 Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: 7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered round it and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8 His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
9 Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” 11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
To be loved over all others. What a gift.
The Defiling of Dinah
34 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. 3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. 4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.”
To have affection for, sexually. Basically he was a horny boy, and he rapped her and called it love. Interesting…
Genesis 32:10
English Standard Version (ESV)
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
In this case, Love means Kindness, or Mercies.
This comes just before Jacob wrestles with God.
Genesis 29: 18 Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” 20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
“Seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.” So true the power of love. The power to make days feel like moments. The power to cast out fear. Or the power to cause you physical pain when it gets taken from you. The most powerful of all of the human emotions. I think perhaps injustice, or jealousy, or hatred,but then again, I truly believe that love can conquer all of those emotions. Perhaps the most powerful emotion is the one you are feeling the most at any given moment. That emotion is “in power” and therefore the most powerful.
Genesis 29:16-19
16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had weak eyes [a], but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. 18 Jacob was in love [b] with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
[b] A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise):—(be-) love (-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
What is the meaning of this?
[a] Courtesy of Vayetzei – Both Rachel and Leah are considered beautiful women in Jewish tradition, but a verse in this week’s Torah seems to suggest that Rachel was the “beauty queen” of the family: “Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful” (Gen. 29:17). Why are Leah’s eyes described as “weak”? Is this a euphemism for saying she was unsightly? After all, Rachel is described in this verse as yifat mareh – “beautiful of sight” (i.e., attractive). Does this text therefore contrast the two women by implying that Leah was physically unattractive? Or does having “weak eyes” mean that she was perhaps nearsighted? How are we to understand Leah’s weak eyes?
The word translated as “weak” is the Hebrew word rakkot (רַכּוֹת), the plural form of the word rak (רַךְ), meaning soft or tender. Rashi comments that Leah’s eyes were made “weak” (tender) from crying “until her eyelashes fell out.” But why was she so sad? According to midrash, Leah’s eyes were reddened and puffy because she was constantly lamenting the prospect of marrying Esau. The adage of the town was: “Two sons to Rivka; two daughters to Lavan; the older to the older, the younger to the younger.”
Leah’s eyes were tender and tearstained, then, but this is not intended to say she was unattractive. On the contrary, saying that she had “weak eyes” is a term of praise for her, since her greatest fear was to be forced to undergo an arranged marriage with Esau, and therefore she wept and wept to be the mother of the righteous…. God saw her tears — and made her the most fruitful of the four matriarchs of Israel. Ironically, it was the less teary-eyed Rachel, who later died in childbirth, that was prophesied to weep for her children (Jer. 31:15).
Regarding this subject the Talmud states that the word rak (tender) connotes royalty (Bava Basra 4a). Indeed, two lines of royalty were destined to descend from Leah: the royal family of Judah (from whom would come King David and King Messiah) and the spiritual line of Levi, from whom would descend Moses, Aaron, and the Kohanim (the priestly class). Like their tenderhearted mother, both of these houses of Israel would shed tears of concern for the well-being of Israel.
Genesis 20:13
“And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love (kindness) to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
חֶסֶד checed {kheh'-sed} 1) goodness, kindness, faithfulness 2) a reproach, shame kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opprobrium) reproof, or (subjectively) beauty:—favour, good deed (-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Genesis 20:2
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Genesis 29:18
Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
Genesis 29:32
Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,[a] for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”
Genesis 22:2
2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.אָהַב
‘ahab {aw-hab’} or אָהֵב ‘aheb {aw-habe’} a primitive root; TWOT – 29; v
1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God
1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle)
1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God’s love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers)
2) to like
- Genesis 16:2
So she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go and make love to my servant. Maybe I can have a family through her.”Abram agreed to what Sarai had said.
Genesis 16:1-3 (in Context) Genesis 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
- Genesis 16:4
He made love to Hagar. And she became pregnant.When Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to look down on the woman who owned her.
Genesis 16:3-5 (in Context) Genesis 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Making love appears many time before the word “love” on it’s own. In this case, making love with Hagar and Sarai. There is a consequence to this. two sons. Once son that will be hated, and one son that will have descendants of kings, and eventually Jesus. I think this is where the importance of translation comes in. He had sex with hagar. He didn’t love her, or make love to her. He had sex. Nothing good came from that. And, I believe that good will always come from love. With pure love, comes good. So, i don’t think the translation is strong.
Dose 2013 