Genesis 26:21

And they dug another be'er, and feuded over that also; and he called the shem of it Sitnah (Enmity).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

In Context

20And the herdmen of Gerar did quarrel with Yitzchakʼs herdmen, saying, The mayim is ours; and he called the shem of the well Esek (Contention); because they disputed with him.

22And he moved away from there, and dug another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the shem of it Rechovot (Broad Places); and he said, For now Hashem hath made rachav (room) for us, and we shall be fruitful in ha'aretz.

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Cross References

Ezra 4:6And in the reign of Achashverosh, + 4:6 Xerxes I 486—465 B.C.E., the husband of Queen Esther in the beginning of his reign, they wrote unto him a sitnah (accusation), + 4:6 related to the word Satan, Accuser against the inhabitants of Yehudah and Yerushalayim.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:13-26

Isaac's Removal to Beersheba. ( b. c. 1804.) 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him: 13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16 And… Read the whole commentary →

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