Teks -- Genesis 25:25 (NET)

25:25 The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.

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Wesley: Gen 25:25

Esau when he was born was red and hairy, as if he had been already a grown man, whence he had his name Esau, made, reared already. This was an indication of a very strong constitution, and gave cause to expect that he would be a very robust, daring, active man. But Jacob was smooth and tender as other children.

Clarke: Gen 25:25 - Red, all over like a hairy garment

Red, all over like a hairy garment - This simply means that he was covered all over with red hair or down; and that this must be intended here is sufficiently evident from another part of his history, where Rebekah, in order to make her favourite son Jacob pass for his brother Esau, was obliged to take the skins of kids, and put them upon his hands and on the smooth part of his neck

Clarke: Gen 25:25 - They called his name Esau

They called his name Esau - It is difficult to assign the proper meaning of the original עשו esau or esav ; if we derive it from עשה asah it must signify made, performed, and, according to some, perfected; esa in Arabic signifies to make firm or hard, and also to come to man’ s estate, to grow old. Probably he had this name from his appearing to be more perfect, robust, etc., than his brother.

Defender: Gen 25:25 - Esau

The newborn infants were given names corresponding to their remarkable appearance at birth, Esau meaning "hairy" and Jacob "heel-catcher" (perhaps, by extension - "supplanter")."

TSK: Gen 25:25 - Esau

Esau : The word Esau has been generally considered to imply made, formed, or perfected; or perfect, robust, etc. But it appears to be a dialectical variation of the Arabic atha, to be covered with hair; whence athai, hairy, as no doubt the word Esau imports, in allusion to the circumstance of his being covered with red hair or down at his birth. Gen 27:11, Gen 27:16, Gen 27:23

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Poole: Gen 25:25 - Red // Esau

Red with red hair upon all the parts of his body. From him the Red Sea is supposed to receive its name, it being so called, as the heathen writers tell us, from one who reigned in those parts, and was called Erythras, or Erythrus, which signifies red, the same with Edom or Esau.

Esau i.e. made or perfect; not properly a child, but rather a man as soon as he was born, having that hair upon him which in others was an evidence of manhood.

Haydock: Gen 25:25 - Red // Hairy like a skin // Jacob

Red. Hence he was called Edom, as well as from the red pottage, ver. 30. (Haydock) ---

Hairy like a skin. On which account Rebecca afterwards clothed Jacob's hands and neck with the skins of kids, to make him resemble Esau. Furry robes were not unusual among the Jews. Some imagine that the name of Sehar, was given to Esau, on account of his being hairy: but Esau was the title by which he was commonly known, and it means one made perfect; because he came into the world, "covered with hair like a man." ---

Jacob: "a supplanter, or wrestler." (Calmet) ---

From the birth of these twins St. Gregory shews the folly of astrologers, who pretend that our actions are under the influence of the planets; and that two, born at the same moment, will have the same fate. How different were the lives of Jacob and Esau! (Haydock)

Gill: Gen 25:25 - And the first came out red // all over like an hairy garment // and they called his name Esau

And the first came out red,.... Either his body, or rather the hair it was covered with, red; which was a sign, as Jarchi observes, that he would be a shedder of blood, fierce and cruel as were he and his posterity:

all over like an hairy garment; his body was all over full of hair, which stood as thick as a garment made of hair, and was a sign of the roughness of his disposition, as well as of the strength of his body:

and they called his name Esau; his parents, and those present at his birth, all that saw him thus covered with hair; for he had his name not from the colour of his body or hair; for the word does not signify "red", but comes from a word which signifies "to make", he being a "maker": that made his way out before his brother, or an active man as afterwards, or because of his hair was "made" or born more like a man than a child; and so the Targum adds,"because he was wholly perfect, with the hair of his head and beard, and with his teeth and grinders:''but chiefly because of his hairiness, for Esau in the Arabic language signifies "covered" ^f, as he was with hair: some say, a word in that language signifies a hairy garment made of camel's hair ^g.