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Genesis 22:3
“And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7925 · Hebrew
- Definition
- literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning
- Derivation
- a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from H7926 (שְׁכֶם);
- KJV renderings
- (arise, be up, get (oneself) up, rise up) early (betimes), morning.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּשְׁכֵּ֨ם — verb Hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 65 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 19:2Genesis 19:27Genesis 20:8Genesis 21:14Genesis 26:31
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁכַם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.