● Genesis 4:20 ESV – Key Verse
20 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
Dwell h3427. יָשַׁב yâšaḇ
p.111 ישׁב rest; settle down; dwell in peace
GV p.253 שׁבב repeat return; p.253 שׁבה capture [increase by absorbing]; p.256 שׁובreturn [move backward]; p.111 ישׁב rest [settle down; dwell in peace]; p.163 נשׁב blow
DV שׁאב – p.253 שׁבב repeat return; p.253 שׁבה capture [increase by absorbing]; p.256 שׁוב return [move backward] > p.252 שׁאב draw in
CM שׁבב and שׁוב move in/out (E3); שׁבה control movement/action (E5); ישׁב lead forward/astray (C56); נשׁב blow (D88); שׁאב pull in/project out (E1)
Tent h0168. אֹהֶל ’ôhel
p.4 אהל radiate in all directions
GV p.59 הלל radiate; p.59 הלה fault; p.58 הלא remove; p.150 נהל lead the weak
DV p.4 אהל – p.59 הלל radiate > p.4 אהל radiate in all directions
CM הלל encourage/deny growth (A34); הלה and הלא develop/decline (A33); נהלinitiate/arrest movement (D77); (אהל no cognates)
AND
GV p.10 אלל deny [obstruct development]; p.10 אלה master [combine elements for control]; p.5 אול vacillate [lack clarity of purpose]; p.99 יאל decide [initiate action; begin a process]; p.9 איל strengthen
¿ DV אהל – p.10 אלל deny [obstruct development]; p.10 אלה master [combine elements for control] > p.4 אהל radiate in all directions ?
CM אלל encourage/deny growth (A34); אלה develop/decline (A33); אול restrain (A5); איל move directly/circularly (A11); יאל activate/deactivate (C2); (אהל no cognates)
See how the tent “radiates in all directions.”
h3427 + h0168
h0168. אֹהֶל ’ôhel + h3427. יָשַׁב yâšaḇ
● Genesis 4:20 ESV – Key Verse
20 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
Genesis 4:20
20 וַתֵּ֥לֶד עָדָ֖ה אֶת־יָבָ֑ל ה֣וּא הָיָ֔ה אֲבִ֕י יֹשֵׁ֥ב אֹ֖הֶל וּמִקְנֶֽה׃
Adah עדה
p.180 עדה decorate; adorn
GV p.179 עדד tear off [pieces]; p.180 עדה decorate [adorn]; p.180 עוד endure [continue]; p.106 יעד arrange [set specifics]
CM עדד pierce (A31); עדה retain/relinquish (A57); עוד constrain by external force (A2); יעדbring together (C49)
Jabal יבל
p.99 יבל bring home
GV p.27 בלל mix [new element into existing ones]; p.27 בלה decay [wither]; p.26 בלא wear out; p.22 בול lump [together]; p.99 יבל bring home; p.147 נבל wither [prevent growth]
DV אבל – p.27 בלל mix [new element into existing ones]; p.27 בלה decay [wither]; p.26 בלאwear out; p.22 בול lump [together] > p.1 אבל lack wholeness
DV בהל – p.27 בלל mix [new element into existing ones]; p.27 בלה decay [wither]; p.26 בלאwear out > p.21 בהל shock
¿ DV הבל – p.27 בלל mix [new element into existing ones]; p.27 בלה decay [wither]; p.26 בלא wear out > p.55 הבל lack value ?
CM בלל integrate disparate elements (B30); בלה and בלא separate out completely (B28); בולcombine/separate (B17); יבל express control (C5); נבל weaken; lose essence (D66); אבל and הבל restrain (A5); בהל have/lack control (B11)
Livestock מִקְנֶֽה will have its own entry very soon
Genesis 18:1 And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door (h6607. פֶּתַח p̱eṯaḥ) of his tent in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:1
1 וַיֵּרָ֤א אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה בְּאֵלֹנֵ֖י מַמְרֵ֑א וְה֛וּא יֹשֵׁ֥ב פֶּֽתַח־הָאֹ֖הֶל כְּחֹ֥ם הַיֹּֽום׃
p.209 פתח open
CM פתח react to externals (B5)
Genesis 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis 25:27
27 וַֽיִּגְדְּלוּ֙ הַנְּעָרִ֔ים וַיְהִ֣י עֵשָׂ֗ו אִ֛ישׁ יֹדֵ֥עַ צַ֖יִד אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֶ֑ה וְיַעֲקֹב֙ אִ֣ישׁ תָּ֔ם יֹשֵׁ֖ב אֹהָלִֽים׃
Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
Genesis 31:34
34 כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה בַּיֹּ֣ום הַזֶּ֑ה צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה לַעֲשֹׂ֖ת לְכַפֵּ֥ר עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃
34 וְרָחֵ֞ל לָקְחָ֣ה אֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֗ים וַתְּשִׂמֵ֛ם בְּכַ֥ר הַגָּמָ֖ל וַתֵּ֣שֶׁב עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַיְמַשֵּׁ֥שׁ לָבָ֛ן אֶת־כָּל־הָאֹ֖הֶל וְלֹ֥א מָצָֽא׃
Leviticus 8:33-35
33 And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you. 34 As has been done today, the LORD has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.
35 At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the LORD has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.”
Leviticus 8:33-35
33 וּמִפֶּתַח֩ אֹ֨הֶל מוֹעֵ֜ד לֹ֤א תֵֽצְאוּ֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים עַ֚ד יֹ֣ום מְלֹ֔את יְמֵ֖י מִלֻּאֵיכֶ֑ם כִּ֚י שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים יְמַלֵּ֖אאֶת־יֶדְכֶֽם׃
34 כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה בַּיֹּ֣ום הַזֶּ֑ה צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה לַעֲשֹׂ֖ת לְכַפֵּ֥ר עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃
35 וּפֶתַח֩ אֹ֨הֶל מוֹעֵ֜ד תֵּשְׁב֨וּ יוֹמָ֤ם וָלַ֨יְלָה֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֛ם אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א תָמ֑וּתוּ
כִּי־כֵ֖ן צֻוֵּֽיתִי׃
מוֹעֵ֜ד meeting
h4150. מוֹעֵד mô‘êḏ; or (feminine) מוֹעָדָה moweadah; from h3259. יָעַד yâ‘aḏ
p.299 –מ that which emanates from an object or person
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GV p.179 עדד tear off [pieces]; p.180 עדה decorate [adorn]; p.180 עוד endure [continue]; p.106 יעד arrange [set specifics]
CM עדד pierce (A31); עדה retain/relinquish (A57); עוד constrain by external force (A2); יעד bring together (C49)
AND/OR
p.136 מהה be unknown; doubt
¿ GV p.136 מהה be unknown [doubt]; p.135 מאה multiply ?
¿ DV אמה – p.136 מהה be unknown; doubt > p.11 אמה serve ?
¿ DV המה – p.136 מהה be unknown [doubt] > המה agitate; make noise ?
CM מהה have/lack substance (B55 – ¿ also B49 increase/decrease ?); מאה increase/decrease (B49); אמה and המה protect/disturb (A38)
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GV p.179 עדד tear off [pieces]; p.180 עדה decorate [adorn]; p.180 עוד endure [continue]; p.106 יעד arrange [set specifics]
CM עדד pierce (A31); עדה retain/relinquish (A57); עוד constrain by external force (A2); יעדbring together (C49)
AND/OR
p.142 מעד waver; move with uncertainty
CM מעד have/have not (B48)
Here one might benefit from thinking about all these options together. When we are struggling, moving with uncertainty, have doubts, we might want a meeting with others to take out question(s) apart, consider together (hopefully with others possessing Godliness) or meet with God at the “tent of meeting,” to ponder, wait, and receive God’s influence.
Leviticus 14:8 And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days.
This brings it clearly home, if the other discussion doesn’t (the one on livestock, coming up next). First read this context beginning Leviticus 14:1. Then search for Naaman in the search bar, or you can begin by going to Naaman in Post 10. Keywords. He is also in Posts 32 and 35. What we have been translating as leper and leprosy all these year has to do with haughtiness. And it shows up in our countenance and also in our homes. h6879. צָרַע ṣâra‘ is the root for ‘leper.’
p.222 צרע erupt;; CM צרע project outward (E30)
The cleansing of the ‘leper,’ haughtiness, is submitting to God and/or being shamed for a period of time. See Numbers 12 re: Miriam and her haughtiness and her shaming. As always, when you see the number seven, as here and with Naaman and with Miriam, it is a number of “completeness.” The root for seven is h7651. שֶׁבַע šeḇa‘.
p.254 שמע submit to God; complete
CM שמע control movement/action (E5)
By the way, ‘seven’ here is in the form שִׁבְעַ֥ת with the Tav ending, the “mark.” It occurs 117 times in that form. If you have a way of looking it up that way, I encourage that. It occurs most commonly as שִׁבְעַת יָמִים, what we translate as “seven days.” But again, know that “days” is not always what it means to us: e.g. see CWSBD:
H3117. יוֹם yôm masc. noun
(day, time, period, daily)
It could here mean “a time of submitting to God.”
And if we look as we have been at different approaches to the understanding of the words, look at this GV family regarding ימים:
GV p.137 מום [fault] disable; p.104 ימם [perfect] clear; p.102 יום ascend; ¿ p.152 נוםsleep ?
DV p.137 מום fault [disable] > p.135 מאם lack
CM (מום no cognates); ימם perfect (C62); יום establish (C45) ; (נום no cognates); (מאםno cognates)
Perhaps a time of clearing our faults, a time of submitting to God.
2 Samuel 7:6 I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling (h4908. מִשְׁכָּן mišḵân).
2 Samuel 19:8 Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came before the king.
Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.
2 Kings 13:5-6
5 (Therefore the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly. 6 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)
1 Chronicles 4:41 These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 5:10 And in the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 17:5 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling (h4908. מִשְׁכָּן mišḵân) (to dwelling).
Psalms 69:25 May their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
Isaiah 16:5 then a throne will be established in steadfast love,
and on it will sit in faithfulness
in the tent of David
one who judges and seeks justice
and is swift to do righteousness.”
▲ Isaiah 40:22
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
Jeremiah 30:18 “Thus says the LORD:
Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob
and have compassion on his dwellings (h4908. מִשְׁכָּן mišḵân);
the city shall be rebuilt on its mound,
and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
I want to end with another in Jeremiah, because it will introduce the next entry. But these two are also very important, so I bring these in before the order in Scripture (both Hebrew and English order), and will then circle back around to Jeremiah. You will hopefully have a section of Jeremiah on your mind for a time to ponder 🤔 in your heart 💜.
Hosea 12:9 I am the LORD your God
from the land of Egypt;
I will again make you dwell in tents,
as in the days of the appointed feast.
Zechariah 12:7 “And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
▲ Jeremiah 35:7-11
7 You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’ 8 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab (יְהוֹנָדָ֤ב) the son of Rechab (רֵכָב֙), our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, 9 and not to build houses (h1004. בַּיִת ḇayiṯ) to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed, 10 but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us. 11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.’ So we are living in Jerusalem.”
house h1004. בַּיִת ḇayiṯ
p.26 בית protect; contain
GV p.33 בתת cut off [define]; p.33 בתה destroy [lay waste]; p.26 בית protect [contain]
CM בתת isolate components (B6); בתה react to externals (B5); בית protect/endanger (B3)
Jonadab יְהוֹנָדָ֤ב ➔ יהו + נדב
p.101 יהה exert power
GV p.57 ההה express [pain]; p.57 הוה exist [bring into being]; p.57 הוא be [exist]; p.58 היה be; p.101 יהה exert power
DV p.57 ההה cry in pain [express pain] > p.4 אהה express pain ••• also
¿ GV p.150 נהה pain; p.151 נוה dwell [restfully and peacefully] ?
CM ההה and אהה express deep emotion (A20); הוה and הוא hide/reveal (A3); היהisolate (A32); יהה increase/reduce (C15); נהה impact physically/emotionally (D76)
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p.149 נדב associate freely
CM נדב move forward (D73)
One more word: Rechab רֵכָב֙
p.244 רכב place astride
CM רכב add to base (E71)
Now, I want you to read the entire pericope about the Rechabites, Jr35:1-19, and then next time will talk about some more depth, and I will share a little parable with you. Read it a few times before I send the next entry. Take your time. What can it be talking about? Each time ponder (in your heart), and somewhere in that time, think about the piece we have learned here about “influence.”
Hopefully this review of scriptures that speak of dwelling in tents helps understand what this phrase means. Likely it is an idiom meaning to have influence on others (at least), if you look at the EDBH explanations (which will connect with another entry very soon, tied to ● our key verse). Note that such influence can encourage or deny growth. We are messengers to others in life. What kind of messengers are we?
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