----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Re: bible question genesis


> Matt,
>
> The only opinions of the rendering of that word, or phrase, concerning her
> eyes being tender, well, in the King James it says Tender eyed I believe.
> Let me look that up.  Just a second.  Yep, the old King James says she was
> tender eyed.  I looked up all the Hebrew words and it is very interesting.
> It is a contrast, of cource, because it says, Leah was tender eyed but
> Rachael was beautiful and well favored.  So I go and look up all these
> Hebrew words and am surprised to discover something I have never heard
> before.  First, it can easily mean, Leah could not see well but Rachael
> could.  It could also mean, Leah was not very pretty compared to Rachael.
> It can also mean a couple of other very unusual things.  First, according
to
> the Hebrew, it could literally be referring to Leah's mental ability as
in,
> not as smart as her sister.  It could also mean Leah was not as mentally
> stable as her younger sister.  When you look up the word favored,
concerning
> Rachael, it could also mean Rachael was spiritually more inclined than her
> older sister.  Based upon Rachael's thievery of her father's heathen
idols,
> I sort of get the impression that Rachael was as sneaky as her old man was
> and she thought his idols has some spiritual powers that she wanted for
> herself.  This spirituality, of course, wouldn't be Godly either.  That
one
> little verse sure gets you thinking when you start studying it.  My
favorite
> radio preacher, he's been dead for many years, used to be a guy out of
Texas
> who took one word of the Bible and studied in for 30 minutes on the air.
> Sometimes he went more than one program, too, on the same word.  He was
very
> interesting to listen to and I learned from him how important studying
> individual words can be in the Bible.  I would go crazy without my Online
> Bible program and without the reference material contained with in the
> program.  Hope that helped Matt.  Brad has some other resource material
> there so maybe he will answer, if he hasn't already.
>
> Phil.
>
>