משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”

עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”

שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…

Isaac went ... unto Gerar. — Following the stream of Semitic migration (Genesis 12:15), Isaac had originally …

And there was a famine. Moses relates that Isaac was tried by nearly the same kind of temptation as that through which his father Abraham …

And there was a famine in the land
In the land of Canaan, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; beside…

Isaac had been trained in a believing dependence on the Divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs; and now that there is a famine in …