Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Genesis 30:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
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Quick Meaning
Leah later bears a daughter and names her Dinah. The brief notice gives Dinah a place in the family sequence and anticipates her later narrative importance without explaining her future story here.
Read It With
- Genesis 29:31–30:24
Read verses 17–24 and later Genesis 34. Dinah follows Leah's six sons before the narrative returns to Rachel and Joseph. Genesis 34 makes Dinah central later, but verse 21 itself supplies only her birth and name and should not be used to infer her infancy, character, or future consent.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Dinah's brief naming completes Leah's children in this sequence and anticipates her later narrative place.
Read Genesis 30:19–21 together
Why these verses belong together: Leah's sixth son, hoped-for honor, Zebulun's naming, and Dinah's birth complete Leah's later sequence.
Verse 19. 19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
Verse 20. 20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
Verse 21. 21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
What Remains True
A person named briefly in a family record is not less human or less important than those who receive longer speeches.
How It Can Shape Life
- Do not treat girls, quiet people, or those whose stories are narrated through others as incidental; preserve their dignity and refuse to invent motives or consent the text does not give.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Genesis 29:31–30:24 — God Builds Jacob's Family Amid RivalrySources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? very strong
Where care is needed
The verse does not explain Dinah's name, infancy, upbringing, or later experience.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Displayed wording, unit boundary, birth sequence, name speeches, household relationships, later birth-mother identification, and forward family movement.
Exact location: Genesis 29:31–30:24 in the pinned eng-kjv2006 source; compared with Genesis 29:15–30; 30:25–43; 33:1–7; 35:23–26; 37:2; and 49
Open source ↗hebrew text morphology and lemma data
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible — Genesis
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, Version 2.2 released 2021; repository inspected 2026
Supports: Hebrew wording, literary repetitions, wordplays, textual difficulty, speaker distinctions, and lexical uncertainty.
Exact location: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, wlc/Gen.xml, Genesis 29:31–30:24; wording and morphology for hated, saw, heard, knees, built, judged, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, mandrakes, hired, Issachar, Zebulun, remembered, reproach, removed, and added
Open source ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — Genesis with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, Digital edition accessed 2026
Supports: Translation alternatives, textual and lexical notes, name wordplays, household language, and interpretive restraint.
Exact location: NET Bible, Genesis 29:31–30:24 and translator notes, especially notes on hated, Reuben through Judah, Rachel and Jacob's dialogue, knees and building, Dan and Naphtali, Gad, mandrakes, Issachar, Zebulun, remembered, and Joseph
Open NET Genesis 29 ↗