Genesis 25:11

וַיְהִי אַחֲרֵי מוֹת אַבְרָהָם וַיְבָרֶךְ אֱלֹהִים אֶת־יִצְחָק בְּנוֹ וַיֵּשֶׁב יִצְחָק עִם־בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִֽי׃ ס

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Hebrew

וַיְהִ֗י אַחֲרֵי֙ מ֣וֹת אַבְרָהָ֔ם וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־יִצְחָ֣ק בְּנ֑וֹ וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב יִצְחָ֔ק עִם־בְּאֵ֥ר לַחַ֖י רֹאִֽי׃ ס

Greek (Septuagint)

ἐγένετο δὲ μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν Ἀβραὰμ εὐλόγησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Ἰσαὰκ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ· καὶ κατῲκησεν Ἰσαὰκ παρὰ τὸ φρέαρ τῆς

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Et post obitum illius benedixit Deus Isaac filio ejus, qui habitabat juxta puteum nomine Viventis et videntis.

Spanish

Después de la muerte de Abraham, Dios bendijo a su hijo Isaac, quien se estableció cerca de Beer Lahai Roi.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y sucedió, después de muerto Abraham, que Dios bendijo á Isaac su hijo: y habitó Isaac junto al pozo del Viviente que me ve.

English

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi. The Descendants of Ishmael (1 Chronicles 1:28–31)

✦ What the text says

Summary

Genesis 25:11 reports two sequential events following Abraham's death: God's blessing of Isaac, and Isaac's settling near a specific place called Beer-lahai-roi. The verse marks a narrative transition from Abraham's story to Isaac's.

Key words

va-yehi ("and it was", H1961) — qal narrative form opening the verse, the standard formula introducing a new sequence of events in Hebrew narrative.
mot ("death of", H4194) — construct singular noun, grammatically bound to Avraham, forming the phrase "the death of Abraham."
va-yvarekh ("and he blessed", H1288) — piel narrative form; the piel stem here carries an intensive/factitive nuance for the act of blessing performed by Elohim.
beno ("his son", H1121A + H9023) — construct noun with pronominal suffix, specifying that Isaac is Abraham's son, reinforcing the genealogical link between the two named figures.
va-yeshev ("and he dwelt", H3427) — qal narrative verb marking Isaac's action of settling, the second main event of the verse.

What the text says

The verse is built as a chain of three narrative clauses linked by the vav-narrative construction (va-), each introducing a sequential action: "it was" (va-yehi), "he blessed" (va-yvarekh), and "he dwelt" (va-yeshev). This chaining is typical of Hebrew narrative prose, where each new vav-prefixed verb form advances the storyline in temporal sequence rather than marking simultaneity.

The temporal clause acharei mot Avraham ("after the death of Abraham") uses the construct form mot ("death of," H4194) governing the proper noun Avraham, establishing the chronological setting for what follows. The subject of the blessing, Elohim ("God," H0430G), is grammatically plural in form though functioning as a singular subject with the singular verb yvarekh, a common feature of this term when referring to the deity in Hebrew narrative. The object of the blessing, Yitzchak ("Isaac," H3327), is marked by the direct object particle 'et (H0853), which itself carries no independent meaning but signals that Isaac is the recipient of the action. The phrase beno ("his son," H1121A + H9023) then specifies Isaac's relationship to Abraham through a construct noun with attached pronominal suffix.

The final clause describes Isaac's dwelling 'im Be'er Lachai Ro'i, using the preposition 'im ("near," H5973A) to locate this residence relative to the named site, whose three elements (H0883) form a single place name in the Hebrew text.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.