And Jacob
Ya`aqob (yah-ak-obe')
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch -- Jacob.
fled
barach (baw-rakh')
to bolt, i.e. figuratively, to flee suddenly -- chase (away); drive away, fain, flee (away), put to flight, make haste, reach, run away, shoot.
into the country
sadeh (saw-deh')
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat) -- country, field, ground, land, soil, wild.
of Syria
'Aram (arawm')
the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite -- Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
and Israel
Yisra'el (yis-raw-ale')
he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
served
`abad (aw-bad')
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
for a wife
'ishshah (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
and for a wife
'ishshah (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
he kept
shamar (shaw-mar')
to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
sheep
