Genesis 35 · Verse 15

Genesis 35:15

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.
Genesis 35:15, King James Version

Genesis 35:15 in other translations

BSBJacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
WEBJacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
ASVAnd Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
YLTand Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.
DARBYAnd Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el.
BBEAnd he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.
WebsterAnd Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.

What does Genesis 35:15 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 35:6-15

The comfort the saints have in holy ordinances, is not so much from Beth-el, the house of God, as from El-beth-el, the God of the house. The ordinances are empty things, if we do not meet with God in them. There Jacob buried Deborah, Rebekah's nurse. She died much lamented. Old servants in a family, that have in their time been faithful and useful, ought to be respected. God appeared to Jacob. He renewed the…

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Genesis 35:15 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.

וַיִּקְרָ֨אvai.yik.Ra'and he calledH7121
יַעֲקֹ֜בya.'a.KoJacobH3290
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
שֵׁ֣םshem[the] name ofH8034
הַמָּק֗וֹםha.ma.Komthe placeH4725
אֲשֶׁר֩'a.SherwhereH834
דִּבֶּ֨רdi.Berhe had spokenH1696
אִתּ֥וֹ'i.Towith himH854
שָׁ֛םshamthereH8033
אֱלֹהִ֖ים'E.lo.HimGodH430
בֵּֽית\־beit-Beth-H1008
אֵֽל\׃'El-elH1008

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

Cross references for Genesis 35:15

  • Genesis 28:19

    And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

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Context

  • Genesis 35:14

    And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

  • Genesis 35:15

    And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.

  • Genesis 35:16

    And they journeyed from Beth–el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

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Genesis 35:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y llamó Jacob el nombre de aquel lugar donde Dios había hablado con él, Beth-el.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Jacob appela le nom du lieu où Dieu avait parlé avec lui Béthel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Jakob gab dem Orte, woselbst Gott mit ihm geredet hatte, den Namen Bethel.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		vocansque nomen loci illius Bethel.