Skip to main content
bible.reafit.ai
Genesis 38:18Gen.38.18

And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il répondit: Quel gage te donnerai-je? Elle dit: Ton cachet, ton cordon, et le bâton que tu as à la main. Il les lui donna. Puis il alla vers elle; et elle devint enceinte de lui.

KJV

And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

Patristic reading

3
  • Philo Judaeus

    De Somniis (lib. i-ii)

    ίῳ καὶ τὸν εἱρμὸν τῶν τῆς φύσεως πραγμάτων, ὡς ἡ Θάμαρ· οὐ γὰρ κλοιός, ἀλλὰ ὁρμίσκος αὐτῆς ὁ κόσμος (Gen. 38, 18) — καὶ δακτύλιον μέντοι βασιλικόν (Gen. 41, 42), δῶρον 1 οὖν conicio 4 τῆς secl. Mang., idem καὶ post θαρραλεότητος add. vel θαρραλεωτάτης λεωτάτης coni. 5. 6 ὕμνον, ε…
  • Philo Judaeus

    De Somniis (lib. i-ii)

    θέντι πάλιν τῇ Θάμαρ ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως τοῦ ὁρῶντος, Ἰσραήλ, Ἰούδα. δίδωσι γὰρ οὗτος τῇ ψυχῇ σφραγῖδα (Gen. 38, 18), πάγκαλον δῶρον, διδάσκων ὅτι ὁ θεὸς ἀσχημάτιστον οὖσαν τὴν τῶν πάντων οὐσίαν ἐσχημάτισε καὶ ἀτύπωτον ἐτύπωσε καὶ ἄποιον ἐμόρφωσε καὶ τελειώσας τὸν ὅλον ἐσφράγισε κόσ…
  • Epiphanius

    Panarion (Adversus Haereses)

    δὲ κἀκεῖνοι αὐτοὶ ἐκαυχήσαντο πολλάκις πεπαρρησιασμένως τοῦτο ἐπιτελεῖν. κατηγοροῦσι δὲ δῆθεν 6 vg. Gen. 38, 9 – 21 f vgl. haer. 26, 13, 4f; I 293, 1 ff – 26 über die Andreasakten vgl. zu haer. 47, 1, 5; II 216, 5 M U 1 αὐτῶν M 3 πεφθαρμένοι U 5 σεμνώτερον U | Αὐάνου M 6 συνῆπτο…

Go deeper

For an immersive study of Genesis 38:18 — meditation, lectio divina, exegesis, theology — discover Open Study Bible.

Full study