Genesis 26 · Verse 6

Genesis 26:6

And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
Genesis 26:6, King James Version

Genesis 26:6 in other translations

BSBSo Isaac settled in Gerar.
WEBIsaac lived in Gerar.
ASVAnd Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
YLTAnd Isaac dwelleth in Gerar;
DARBYAnd Isaac dwelt at Gerar.
BBESo Isaac went on living in Gerar;
WebsterAnd Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

What does Genesis 26:6 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 26:6-11
There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his father, and that in two instances. This rendered his conduct the greater sin. The falls of those who are gone before us are so many rocks on which others have split; and the recording of them is like placing buoys to save future mariners. This Abimelech was not the same that lived in Abraham's days, but both acted rightly. The sins of professors shame them before those that are not themselves religious.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Genesis 26:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֵּ֥שֶׁבvai.Ye.shevand he dweltH3427
יִצְחָ֖קyitz.ChakIsaacH3327
בִּגְרָֽר\׃big.Rarin GerarH1642

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 26:6

  • Genesis 20:1

    And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

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Gerar.
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Context

  • Genesis 26:5

    Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

  • Genesis 26:6

    And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

  • Genesis 26:7

    And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

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Genesis 26:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Habitó, pues, Isaac en Gerar.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Isaac habita à Guérar.
German
Elberfelder 1871		So blieb Isaak in Gerar.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris.