Parashat Vayishlach: In the Day of My Distress: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Genesis 35.1-7

Strange: נֵכָר nêkâr (nun, kaf, rosh), nay-kawr’; ‘ from H5234; foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom:—alien, strange (+ -er)-). 

Acts 17.15-28

Strange: ξένος xénos, xen’-os; apparently a primary word; foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer:—host, strange(-r).

Cleanse: ṭâhêr (tet, heh, rosh), taw-hare’; a primitive root; properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication) to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy):—be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).

  • Psalm 51.2- Wash me completely from my guilt, And cleanse me from my sin.
  • Genesis 41.14 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Yosĕph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his garments, and came to Pharaoh.

Change: חָלַף châlaph, khaw-laf’; a primitive root; properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change:—abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through. 

Garment: שִׂמְלָה simlâh, sim-law’; perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath); a dress, especially a mantle:—apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. 

  • Proverbs 30.4 – Who has gone up to the heavens and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who established all the ends of the earth? What is His Name, And what is His Son’s Name, If you know it?

V.3 Distress: צָרָה tsârâh, tsaw-raw’; feminine of H6862; tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:—adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.

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