What Does Genesis 26:30 Mean?
And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
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
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “feast” grows from the word for “drink,” so this shared table makes peace something they take in together.
THE MEANING
Agreement becomes something the body can receive: food is eaten, drink is shared, and people take their place at one table. The verse speaks now wherever a bond becomes tangible through shared provision.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁתֶּה
mishteh
GROWS FROM
שתה
To drink
The word translated “feast” is formed from the root for drinking; the meal is named through one of its acts of shared taking-in. The same root appears again when they “drink,” binding the feast and their participation in it into one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
shatah: To drink
שָׁתָה
This verb is the seed from which “feast” grows, revealing the drinking within the banquet.
yishtu: They drink
יִשְׁתּוּ
The verse repeats the root in the guests’ action: the feast is not only prepared; they take part in it.
THE PATTERN
Shared eating and drinking make a bond visible through common participation.
Then Jacob slaughtered a sacrifice upon the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread, and they ate bread, and lodged all night in the mountain.And on the nobles of the children of Israel he did not stretch out his hand, and they saw God, and they ate and drank.And they, holding fast day by day with one passion in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, took their food with gladness and singleness of heart.THE THREAD
And on the nobles of the children of Israel he did not stretch out his hand, and they saw God, and they ate and drank.The Hebrew verb for “they drank” comes from the same root as the “feast” in Genesis 26:30. In both verses, eating and drinking give a bond a tangible place at the table.
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