17 Leah’s eyes were dull, but Rachel was beautiful.
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Genesis 29
Open English Bible, US Edition, Verse 17
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Genesis 29:17. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
וְעֵינֵ֥י לֵאָ֖ה רַכּ֑וֹת וְרָחֵל֙ הָֽיְתָ֔ה יְפַת־תֹּ֖אַר וִיפַ֥ת מַרְאֶֽה׃
וְעֵינֵ֥י
וְרָחֵל֙
הָֽיְתָ֔ה
תֹּ֖אַר
וִיפַ֥ת
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Οἱ δὲ ὀφθάλμοὶ Λείας, ἀσθενεῖς· Ῥαχῆλ δὲ ἦν καλὴ τῷ εἴδει, καὶ ὡραία τῇ ὄψει σφάδρα.
Οἱ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
ὀφθάλμοὶ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- ὀφθάλμοὶ
- Transliteration
- ophthalmoi
- Morphology
- nominative plural masculine pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
Λείας
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- λείας
- Transliteration
- leias
- Morphology
- accusative plural feminine or genitive singular feminine pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 11
ἀσθενεῖς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- ἀσθενεῖς
- Transliteration
- astheneis
- Morphology
- Greek -εις form; likely verb 2nd singular or plural noun/adjective depending on context
- Gloss
- form requires context
- Part of Speech
- verb/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 2
Ῥαχῆλ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- Ῥαχῆλ
- Transliteration
- achel
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Ῥαχῆλ
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
ἦν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- εἰμί
- Transliteration
- en
- Morphology
- verb, imperfect active indicative, 3rd singular
- Gloss
- he/she/it was
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- To be or exist.
- Strong's
- G1510
- Occurrences
- 5427
καλὴ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- καλὴ
- Transliteration
- kale
- Morphology
- nominative feminine singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 30
τῷ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
εἴδει
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- εἴδει
- Transliteration
- eidei
- Morphology
- dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 21
καὶ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- καί
- Transliteration
- kai
- Morphology
- coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and, also, even
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- Coordinating conjunction.
- Strong's
- G2532
- Occurrences
- 56730
ὡραία
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ὡραία
- Transliteration
- oraia
- Morphology
- nominative/accusative neuter plural or feminine nominative singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 5
τῇ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
ὄψει
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ὄψει
- Transliteration
- opsei
- Morphology
- dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 29
σφάδρα
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- σφάδρα
- Transliteration
- sphadra
- Morphology
- nominative/accusative neuter plural or feminine nominative singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
Coverage: Torah
Ancient Aramaic Torah translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as the Hebrew original text.
וְעֵינֵי לֵאָה יָאֲיָן וְרָחֵל הֲוַת שַׁפִּירָא בְרֵיוָא וְיָאֲיָא בְחֶזְוָא
וְעֵינֵי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עיני
- Transliteration
- w'yny
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 53
לֵאָה
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- לאה
- Transliteration
- l'h
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 33
יָאֲיָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יאין
- Transliteration
- y'yn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 1
וְרָחֵל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- רחל
- Transliteration
- wrchl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 44
הֲוַת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- הות
- Transliteration
- hwt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 40
שַׁפִּירָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שפירא
- Transliteration
- shpyr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 3
בְרֵיוָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ריוא
- Transliteration
- bryw'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 2
וְיָאֲיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יאיא
- Transliteration
- wy'y'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 1
בְחֶזְוָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חזוא
- Transliteration
- bchzw'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 3
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܘܥܝܢ̈ܝܗ̇ ܕܠܝܐ ܪ̈ܟܝܟܢ . ܘܪܚܝܠ ܫܦܝܪܐ ܗܘܬ ܒܚܙܘܗ̇. ܘܝܐܐ ܩܘܒܠܠܗ̇.
ܘܥܝܢ̈ܝܗ̇
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- W<JN"JH^
- Morphology
- W-<JN/J-H=
- Occurrences
- 0
ܕܠܝܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- DLJ>
- Morphology
- D-LJ>/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܪ̈ܟܝܟܢ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- R"KJKN
- Morphology
- RK&JK[/N
- Occurrences
- 0
ܘܪܚܝܠ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- WRXJL
- Morphology
- W-RXJL/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܫܦܝܪܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- CPJR>
- Morphology
- CPJR/>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܗܘܬ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- HWT
- Morphology
- HW(J[T==
- Occurrences
- 0
ܒܚܙܘܗ̇
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- BXZWH^
- Morphology
- B-XZW/-H=
- Occurrences
- 0
ܘܝܐܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- WJ>>
- Morphology
- W-J>>/
- Occurrences
- 0
ܩܘܒܠܠܗ̇
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- QWBLLH^
- Morphology
- QWBLL/-H=
- Occurrences
- 0
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Sed Lia lippis erat oculis: Rachel decora facie, et venusto aspectu.
sed
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sed
- Transliteration
- sed
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1637
Lia
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Lia
- Transliteration
- Lia
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 13
lippis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- lippus
- Transliteration
- lippis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 2
erat
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- erat
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
oculis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- oculus
- Transliteration
- oculis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 682
Rahel
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Raelles
- Transliteration
- Rahel
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 9
decora
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- decorus
- Transliteration
- decora
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 14
facie
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- facies
- Transliteration
- facie
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 793
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
venusto
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uenustus
- Transliteration
- venusto
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 1
aspectu
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- aspectus
- Transliteration
- aspectu
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 51
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Genesis 12:11
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “You are a beautiful woman;
4 relevance votesProverbs 31:30
3 relevance votesGenesis 48:7
As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died to my sorrow in the land of Canaan on the way, some distance from Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
3 relevance votes1 Samuel 10:2
3 relevance votesGenesis 24:16
She was very beautiful and unmarried, a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.
3 relevance votesGenesis 39:6
Leaving all that he had in Joseph’s charge, he knew nothing about his affairs except about the food which he ate. Also Joseph was handsome and attractive.
3 relevance votesJeremiah 31:15
3 relevance votesGenesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel and heard her prayer and gave her a child.
3 relevance votesMatthew 2:18
‘A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and mourning loudly; Rachel, weeping for her children, refusing all comfort for they were dead.’
3 relevance votesGenesis 35:24
the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
3 relevance votesGenesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel, and so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
3 relevance votes