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After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau`s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
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The Heel-Holder's Name
Commentators explain that Jacob's name literally means "he who takes the heel." This was given because his hand was on Esau's heel at birth, an act that foreshadowed their future conflict. While the name initially described the physical event, it later took on the negative meaning of "supplanter" or "one who overreaches," a sense first applied by a bitter Esau and later reflected in Jacob's own cunning actions.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
פדן padān — Paddan, “plowed field;” related: “cut, plow.”
עשׂי ‛êśâv, Esau, “hairy, or made.”
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And after that came his brother out Out of his mother's womb, either by his own strength, or by the help of the midw…
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Isaac seems not to have been much tried, but to have spent his days in quietness. Jacob and Esau were prayed for; their parents, after being long c…