Teks -- Genesis 37:15 (NET)

37:15 When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Gen 37:13-17 - Israel said, . . . Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem?

Anxious to learn how his sons were doing in their distant encampment, Jacob despatched Joseph; and the youth, accepting the mission with alacrity, left the vale of Hebron, sought them at Shechem, heard of them from a man in "the field" (the wide and richly cultivated plain of Esdraelon), and found that they had left that neighborhood for Dothan, probably being compelled by the detestation in which, from the horrid massacre, their name was held.

TSK: Gen 37:15 - he was // What

he was : Gen 21:14

What : Jdg 4:22; 2Ki 6:19; Joh 1:38, Joh 4:27, Joh 18:4, Joh 18:7, Joh 20:15

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Gen 37:15 - And a certain man found him // and, behold, he was wandering in the field // and the man asked him, saying, what seekest thou

And a certain man found him,.... Many of the Jewish writers ^l say, this was an angel, the angel Gabriel, in the likeness of a man; but according to Aben Ezra, it was a traveller he met on the road; but it is more probable, as Schimidt observes, that it was some man at work in the field that came upon him and took notice of him:

and, behold, he was wandering in the field; in some field near Shechem, perhaps the same his father Jacob had purchased, and where he expected to have found his brethren, and was looking out for them, going to and fro in search of them; which the labouring man in the field observed:

and the man asked him, saying, what seekest thou? seeing him walking about, and first looking one way, and then another, concluded he was in search of something, either of some man or of some creature, a sheep or an ox that was lost; and therefore put this question to him, with a view to give him what direction and assistance he could.