What Does Genesis 24:25 Mean?
She said also to him, We have both straw and fodder enough, and a place to lodge.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.THE KEY
This welcome counts a place to stay as part of the provision.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks in concrete terms: what sustains you and a place for you to stay are both included. Room belongs inside provision, not outside it.
THE ROOT
מָקוֹם
maqom
GROWS FROM
קום
arise, stand
The word for “room” is maqom, formed from qum, “to rise” or “stand.” The root gives the offered space a physical shape: it is a place where someone can stand, not just an abstract welcome.
ALSO GROWS
qum: to arise, stand
קוּם
The offered place carries the root’s sense of somewhere a person can stand.
heqim: to raise, set up, establish
הֵקִים
This root family also speaks of establishing something; here, welcome takes the form of a place made available.
לָלוּן
lālûn
GROWS FROM
לון
lodge, remain overnight
“to lodge” in this verse is lālûn. The verb names an overnight stay. Together with maqom, it describes bounded, immediate shelter: a place where the traveler can remain through the night.
ALSO GROWS
lin: to lodge, spend the night
לִין
This verb form makes the length of the offered stay concrete: overnight.
malon: lodging place, inn
מָלוֹן
The same root family names a place for an overnight stay, linking the action of lodging with shelter itself.
THE PATTERN
Hospitality answers need with both practical provision and a place to rest.
Let a little water be taken, please, and wash your feet, and lean yourselves under the tree.Do not let slip the opening of your home to strangers, for by it some have sheltered messengers without knowing it.THE THREAD
And he said, Whose daughter are you? Tell me, I pray you, is there a place in your father's house for us to lodge?The question uses the same Hebrew words for “room” and “lodge” that return in her answer. She answers the request for a place to stay, then names straw and provender as further provision.
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