Genesis 26:19
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Genesis 26:19 in other translations
| BSB | Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there. |
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| WEB | Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water. |
| ASV | And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. |
| YLT | And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water, |
| DARBY | And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. |
| BBE | Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water. |
| Webster | And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. |
What does Genesis 26:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 26:18-22
18-22. Isaac digged again the wells of water--The naming of wells by Abraham, and the hereditary right of his family to the property, the change of the names by the Philistines to obliterate the traces of their origin, the restoration of the names by Isaac, and the contests between the respective shepherds to the exclusive possession of the water, are circumstances that occur among the natives in those regions as…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 26:18-25
Isaac met with much opposition in digging wells. Two were called Contention and Hatred. See the nature of worldly things; they make quarrels, and are occasions of strife; and what is often the lot of the most quiet and peaceable; those who avoid striving, yet cannot avoid being striven with. And what a mercy it is to have plenty of water; to have it without striving for it! The more common this mercy is, the more…
Genesis 26:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 26:19
- John 4:10-11
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
- John 7:38
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
- Song of Solomon 4:15
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
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Context
- Genesis 26:18
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Genesis 26:19
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Genesis 26:20
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
Genesis 26:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y los siervos de Isaac cavaron en el valle, y hallaron allí un pozo de aguas vivas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les serviteurs d’Isaac creusèrent dans la vallée, et ils y trouvèrent un puits d’eau vive. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Knechte Isaaks gruben im Tale und fanden daselbst einen Brunnen lebendigen Wassers. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Foderuntque in torrente, et repererunt aquam vivam. |