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So it was named Allon Bakuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/genesis/35.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Soon after this, Rebekah’s old nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. Ever since, the tree has been called Allon-bacuth (which means “oak of weeping”).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/genesis/35.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/genesis/35.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/genesis/35.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/genesis/35.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bachuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/genesis/35.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/genesis/35.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Now Deborah, Rebekah&#8217s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/genesis/35.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/genesis/35.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Then Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/genesis/35.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Now Deborah, [who once was] Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth (Oak of Weeping).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/genesis/35.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/genesis/35.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Oak of Weeping. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/genesis/35.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/genesis/35.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />While they were there, Rebekah's personal servant Deborah died. They buried her under an oak tree and called it "Weeping Oak." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/genesis/35.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/genesis/35.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried under the oak tree outside Bethel. So Jacob called it the Tree of Crying.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/genesis/35.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named "Oak of Weeping." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/genesis/35.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named Allon-bacuth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/genesis/35.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Now Deborah, Rebekah?s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/genesis/35.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />(Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/genesis/35.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Now Deborah, Rebekah?s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak outside Bethel. So he called its name Allon Bakuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/genesis/35.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/genesis/35.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/genesis/35.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, dies, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calls its name “Oak of Weeping.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/genesis/35.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name 'Oak of weeping.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/genesis/35.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, will die, and be buried from below the house of God, under the oak: and its name shall be called, The Oak of Weeping.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/genesis/35.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />At the same time Debora the nurse of Rebecca died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel under an oak: and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/genesis/35.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />About the same time, Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died, and she was buried at the base of Bethel, under an oak tree. And the name of that place was called, ‘Oak of Weeping.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/35.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died. She was buried under the oak below Bethel, and so it was named Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/35.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/genesis/35.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Then Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under an oak; so the name of the oak was called Betemtha dabkhatha (the oak of weeping).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/genesis/35.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And Debora, the Nurse of Raphqa, died, and she was buried under BaythEil, under the Oak, and he called its name Betemtha dav'Katha.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/genesis/35.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/genesis/35.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And Deborrha, Rebecca's nurse, died, and was buried below Baethel under the oak; and Jacob called its name, The Oak of Mourning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/35-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=8816" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/genesis/35.htm">Jacob Returns to Bethel</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1683.htm" title="1683: də·ḇō·rāh (N-proper-fs) -- Two Isr. women. Or Dborah; the same as dbowrah; Deborah, the name of two Hebrewesses.">Now Deborah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7259.htm" title="7259: riḇ·qāh (N-proper-fs) -- Wife of Isaac. From an unused root probably meaning to clog by tying up the fetlock; fettering; Ribkah, the wife of Isaac.">Rebekah’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/3243.htm" title="3243: mê·ne·qeṯ (V-Hifil-Prtcpl-fsc) -- To suck. A primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk.">nurse,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4191.htm" title="4191: wat·tā·māṯ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To die. A primitive root: to die; causatively, to kill.">died</a> <a href="/hebrew/6912.htm" title="6912: wat·tiq·qā·ḇêr (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To bury. A primitive root; to intern.">and was buried</a> <a href="/hebrew/8478.htm" title="8478: mit·ta·ḥaṯ (Prep-m) -- Underneath, below, instead of. From the same as Towach; the bottom; only adverbially, below, in lieu of, etc.">under</a> <a href="/hebrew/437.htm" title="437: hā·’al·lō·wn (Art:: N-ms) -- An oak. A variation of 'elown.">the oak</a> <a href="/hebrew/8478.htm" title="8478: ta·ḥaṯ (Prep) -- Underneath, below, instead of. From the same as Towach; the bottom; only adverbially, below, in lieu of, etc.">below</a> <a href="/hebrew/1008.htm" title="1008: lə·ḇêṯ- (Prep) -- From bayith and 'el; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1008.htm" title="1008: ’êl (Prep:: N-proper-fs) -- From bayith and 'el; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine.">Bethel.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7121.htm" title="7121: way·yiq·rā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To call, proclaim, read. A primitive root; to call out to.">So Jacob named</a> <a href="/hebrew/8034.htm" title="8034: šə·mōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A primitive word; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character.">it</a> <a href="/hebrew/439.htm" title="439: ’al·lō·wn (N-msc) -- From 'allown and a variation of bkiyth; oak of weeping; Allon-Bakuth, a monumental tree."></a> <a href="/hebrew/439.htm" title="439: bā·ḵūṯ (N-fs) -- From 'allown and a variation of bkiyth; oak of weeping; Allon-Bakuth, a monumental tree.">Allon-bachuth.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/4-4.htm">Judges 4:4-5</a></span><br />Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. / And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1</a></span><br />When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">1 Samuel 28:3</a></span><br />Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/22-14.htm">2 Kings 22:14</a></span><br />So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-22.htm">2 Chronicles 34:22</a></span><br />So Hilkiah and those the king had designated went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/2-36.htm">Luke 2:36-38</a></span><br />There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years, / and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. / Coming forward at that moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the Child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/21-9.htm">Acts 21:9</a></span><br />He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/16-1.htm">Romans 16:1-2</a></span><br />I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea. / Welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her with anything she may need from you. For she has been a great help to many people, including me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/4-3.htm">Philippians 4:3</a></span><br />Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have contended at my side for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/5-10.htm">1 Timothy 5:10</a></span><br />and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/5-16.htm">1 Timothy 5:16</a></span><br />If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/1-5.htm">2 Timothy 1:5</a></span><br />I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-14.htm">2 Timothy 3:14-15</a></span><br />But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them. / From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/titus/2-3.htm">Titus 2:3-5</a></span><br />Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. / In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, / to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-31.htm">Hebrews 11:31</a></span><br />By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.</p><p class="hdg">Rebekah's.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/24-59.htm">Genesis 24:59</a></b></br> And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.</p><p class="hdg">under an oak.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/31-13.htm">1 Samuel 31:13</a></b></br> And they took their bones, and buried <i>them</i> under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.</p><p class="hdg">Allon-bachuth.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/2-1.htm">Judges 2:1,5</a></b></br> And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_chronicles/4-37.htm">Allon</a> <a href="/genesis/1-9.htm">Below</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-6.htm">Beneath</a> <a href="/genesis/35-7.htm">Bethel</a> <a href="/genesis/35-6.htm">Beth-El</a> <a href="/genesis/35-4.htm">Buried</a> <a href="/genesis/33-13.htm">Care</a> <a href="/judges/5-15.htm">Deborah</a> <a href="/judges/5-15.htm">Deb'orah</a> <a href="/genesis/26-18.htm">Died</a> <a href="/genesis/25-17.htm">Dieth</a> <a href="/genesis/29-27.htm">End</a> <a href="/genesis/35-4.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/genesis/8-3.htm">Lower</a> <a href="/genesis/24-59.htm">Nurse</a> <a href="/genesis/35-4.htm">Oak</a> <a href="/genesis/33-19.htm">Part</a> <a href="/genesis/29-12.htm">Rebecca's</a> <a href="/genesis/29-12.htm">Rebekah</a> <a href="/genesis/29-12.htm">Rebekah's</a> <a href="/genesis/32-21.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/genesis/33-14.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/genesis/35-4.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/genesis/33-4.htm">Weeping</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/joshua/19-33.htm">Allon</a> <a href="/genesis/49-25.htm">Below</a> <a href="/genesis/49-25.htm">Beneath</a> <a href="/genesis/35-15.htm">Bethel</a> <a href="/genesis/35-15.htm">Beth-El</a> <a href="/genesis/35-19.htm">Buried</a> <a href="/genesis/39-4.htm">Care</a> <a href="/judges/4-4.htm">Deborah</a> <a href="/judges/4-4.htm">Deb'orah</a> <a href="/genesis/35-18.htm">Died</a> <a href="/genesis/35-19.htm">Dieth</a> <a href="/genesis/35-19.htm">End</a> <a href="/genesis/41-8.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/exodus/28-26.htm">Lower</a> <a href="/exodus/2-7.htm">Nurse</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/11-30.htm">Oak</a> <a href="/genesis/41-34.htm">Part</a> <a href="/genesis/29-12.htm">Rebecca's</a> <a href="/genesis/49-31.htm">Rebekah</a> <a href="/romans/9-10.htm">Rebekah's</a> <a href="/genesis/35-19.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/genesis/35-25.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/genesis/40-19.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/genesis/37-34.htm">Weeping</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 35</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-1.htm">God commands Jacob to go to Bethel.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-2.htm">He purges his house of idols.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-6.htm">He builds an altar at Bethel.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-8.htm">Deborah dies at Allon Bacuth.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-9.htm">God blesses Jacob at Bethel.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-10.htm">Jacob Named Israel.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-16.htm">Rachel travails of Benjamin, and dies in the way to Edar.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-22.htm">Reuben lies with Bilhah.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-23.htm">The sons of Jacob.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">27. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-27.htm">Jacob comes to Isaac at Hebron.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">28. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/35-28.htm">The age, death, and burial of Isaac.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Her death marks the end of an era, as she was likely a significant figure in Jacob's life, possibly serving as a maternal figure. The mention of her death highlights the importance of her role and the respect she commanded within the family.<p><b>and was buried under the oak below Bethel.</b><br>The burial under an oak tree signifies a place of honor and remembrance. Oaks were often associated with significant events and covenants in the Old Testament (e.g., <a href="/genesis/12-6.htm">Genesis 12:6-7</a>, <a href="/joshua/24-26.htm">Joshua 24:26</a>). Bethel, meaning "House of God," was a significant location for Jacob, where he previously encountered God (<a href="/genesis/28-19.htm">Genesis 28:19</a>). This burial site underlines the sacredness of the location and the importance of Deborah's role in the family.<p><b>So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.</b><br>The name Allon-bacuth means "Oak of Weeping," indicating the mourning and respect for Deborah. Naming places after significant events or people was a common practice in biblical times, serving as a memorial for future generations. This act of naming by Jacob reflects his deep sense of loss and the impact Deborah had on his life. It also connects to the broader biblical theme of remembrance and the importance of legacy within God's covenant people.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/deborah.htm">Deborah</a></b><br>Rebekah's nurse, who played a significant role in the household of Isaac and Rebekah. Her death marks an important moment in Jacob's journey.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/r/rebekah.htm">Rebekah</a></b><br>Although not directly mentioned in this verse, she is the mother of Jacob and Esau, and Deborah was her nurse. Her influence is indirectly noted through Deborah's presence.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/b/bethel.htm">Bethel</a></b><br>A significant location in Jacob's life, where he had previously encountered God. It serves as a backdrop for this event, symbolizing a place of divine encounter and remembrance.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/a/allon-bacuth.htm">Allon-bacuth</a></b><br>Meaning "Oak of Weeping," this name reflects the mourning for Deborah and signifies the emotional impact of her death on Jacob's family.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/j/jacob.htm">Jacob</a></b><br>The patriarch who is on a journey of faith and obedience, returning to Bethel as God commanded. This event occurs during his travels.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_mentors.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Mentors</a></b><br>Deborah's role as a nurse and spiritual mentor in the family highlights the value of godly influences in our lives. We should seek and honor those who guide us in faith.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/significance_of_places_in_our_spiritual_journey.htm">Significance of Places in Our Spiritual Journey</a></b><br>Bethel represents a place of encounter with God. We should remember and return to our "Bethels," places or moments where God has spoken to us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_grief_in_the_journey_of_faith.htm">The Reality of Grief in the Journey of Faith</a></b><br>The naming of Allon-bacuth acknowledges the pain of loss. As believers, we can find comfort in God's presence even in times of mourning.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_and_remembrance.htm">Obedience and Remembrance</a></b><br>Jacob's return to Bethel and the events surrounding it remind us of the importance of obedience to God's call and remembering His faithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_35.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 35</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_are_key_jewish_practices_late_in_ot.htm">Why does the Old Testament lack references to key Jewish practices (such as strict monotheism) until much later historical periods?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_verify_bethel's_historical_existence.htm">(Genesis 35:1) How can we verify historically or archeologically that Bethel existed as described here?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_reaffirm_jacob's_name_as_israel.htm">(Genesis 35:9-10) Why does God reaffirm Jacob's name to Israel here, even though it was already changed in Genesis 32:28?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_aleppo_codex.htm">What is Bethel's significance in the Bible?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/35.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Deborah.</span>--As she was at Hebron with Rebekah when Jacob journeyed to Haran, he must have somehow gone thither before this, have seen his father, and told him of his fortunes. Apparently Rebekah was then dead, and Jacob brought back Deborah with him. (See Note on <a href="/genesis/33-18.htm" title="And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.">Genesis 33:18</a>.) How dear she was to them is shown by their calling the tree under which she was buried <span class= "ital">the oak of weeping. </span>This oak was "beneath Beth-el," that is, in the valley below it. Deborah must have died at a great age, for she gave Rebekah suck, and must therefore have been grown up at her birth. Now Jacob, when he returned from Padan-aram, was ninety-seven years of age; and as he was born twenty years after his mother's marriage--if we allow the shortest possible space for the interval spent at Succoth and Shechem--Deborah must have been nearly one hundred and sixty years of age. This again confirms the conclusion that Dinah's dishonour occurred very soon after the arrival of Jacob at Shechem. (See Note on <a href="/genesis/34-1.htm" title="And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.">Genesis 34:1</a>.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/35.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">But Deborah</span> - Bee (Gesenius, Furst) <span class="cmt_word">Rebekah's nurse</span> (<span class="accented">vide</span> <a href="/genesis/24-59.htm">Genesis 24:59</a>) <span class="cmt_word">died</span> - at a very advanced age, having left Padan-aram for Canaan along with Rebekah, upwards of 150 years ago. That she is now found in Jacob's household may be accounted for by supposing that Rebekah had sent her, in accordance with the promise of <a href="/genesis/27-45.htm">Genesis 27:45</a> (Delitzsch); or that Jacob had paid a visit to his father at Hebron, and brought her back with him to Shechem, probably because of Rebekah's death (Lange); or that on Rebekah's death she had been transferred to Jacob's household (Keil, Murphy, Alford); or that Isaac, "who had during the twenty years of his son's absence wandered in different parts of the land" (?), had "at this period of his migrations come into the neighborhood of Bethel" (Kalisch). <span class="cmt_word">And she was buried beneath Bethel</span> - which was situated in the hill country, whence Jacob is instructed to "go up" to Bethel (ver. 1) <span class="cmt_word">under an oak</span>. More correctly, the oak or terebinth, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the well-known tree, which long after served to mark her last resting-place, which some have without reason identified with the palm tree of Deborah the prophetess (<a href="/judges/4-5.htm">Judges 4:5</a>), and the oak of Tabor mentioned in <a href="/1_samuel/10-3.htm">1 Samuel 10:3</a> (Delitzsch, Kurtz, etc.). <span class="cmt_word">And the name of it was called</span> - not "he," <span class="accented">i.e.</span> Jacob, "called it" (Ainsworth), but "one called its name," <span class="accented">i.e.</span> its name was called (Kalisch) - <span class="cmt_word">Allon-bachuth</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> the oak of weeping). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/genesis/35-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Now Deborah,</span><br /><span class="heb">דְּבֹרָה֙</span> <span class="translit">(də·ḇō·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1683.htm">Strong's 1683: </a> </span><span class="str2">Deborah -- two Israelite women</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Rebekah’s</span><br /><span class="heb">רִבְקָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(riḇ·qāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7259.htm">Strong's 7259: </a> </span><span class="str2">Rebekah -- wife of Isaac</span><br /><br /><span class="word">nurse,</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵינֶ֣קֶת</span> <span class="translit">(mê·ne·qeṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Participle - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3243.htm">Strong's 3243: </a> </span><span class="str2">To suck, to give milk</span><br /><br /><span class="word">died</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתָּ֤מָת</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tā·māṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4191.htm">Strong's 4191: </a> </span><span class="str2">To die, to kill</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and was buried</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּקָּבֵ֛ר</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tiq·qā·ḇêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6912.htm">Strong's 6912: </a> </span><span class="str2">To inter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">under</span><br /><span class="heb">מִתַּ֥חַת</span> <span class="translit">(mit·ta·ḥaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8478.htm">Strong's 8478: </a> </span><span class="str2">The bottom, below, in lieu of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the oak</span><br /><span class="heb">הָֽאַלּ֑וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’al·lō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_437.htm">Strong's 437: </a> </span><span class="str2">An oak, other strong tree</span><br /><br /><span class="word">below</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּ֣חַת</span> <span class="translit">(ta·ḥaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8478.htm">Strong's 8478: </a> </span><span class="str2">The bottom, below, in lieu of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Bethel.</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵ֖ל</span> <span class="translit">(’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1008.htm">Strong's 1008: </a> </span><span class="str2">Bethel -- 'house of God', a city in Ephraim, also a place in southern Judah</span><br /><br /><span class="word">So [Jacob] named</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּקְרָ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiq·rā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7121.htm">Strong's 7121: </a> </span><span class="str2">To call, proclaim, read</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[it]</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁמ֖וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(šə·mōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8034.htm">Strong's 8034: </a> </span><span class="str2">A name</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Allon-bachuth.</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּכֽוּת׃</span> <span class="translit">(bā·ḵūṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_439.htm">Strong's 439: </a> </span><span class="str2">Allon-bacuth -- 'oak of weeping', a tree near the grave of Rebekah's nurse</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/genesis/35-8.htm">OT Law: Genesis 35:8 Deborah Rebekah's nurse died and she was (Gen. 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