Genesis 33:19

וַיִּקֶן אֶת־חֶלְקַת הַשָּׂדֶה אֲשֶׁר נָֽטָה־שָׁם אָהֳלוֹ מִיַּד בְּנֵֽי־חֲמוֹר אֲבִי שְׁכֶם בְּמֵאָה קְשִׂיטָֽה׃

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Hebrew

וַיִּ֜קֶן אֶת־חֶלְקַ֣ת הַשָּׂדֶ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָֽטָה־שָׁם֙ אָהֳל֔וֹ מִיַּ֥ד בְּנֵֽי־חֲמ֖וֹר אֲבִ֣י שְׁכֶ֑ם בְּמֵאָ֖ה קְשִׂיטָֽה׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ ἐκτήσατο τὴν μερίδα τοῦ ἀγροῦ, οὗ ἔστησεν ἐκεῖ τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ, παρὰ Ἑμμὼρ πατρὸς Συχὲμ ἑκατὸν ἀμνῶν·

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

Latin (Vulgate)

Emitque partem agri, in qua fixerat tabernacula, a filiis Hemor patris Sichem centum agnis.

Spanish

Por cien monedas de plata, les compró a los hijos de Jamor, el padre de Siquén, la parcela donde había armado su campamento.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y compró una parte del campo, donde tendió su tienda, de mano de los hijos de Hamor, padre de Sichêm, por cien piezas de moneda.

English

And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem ’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Genesis 33:19 narrates that Jacob purchased a plot of land from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, paying one hundred qesitah (H7192). This was the specific field where he had pitched his tent, as mentioned in the immediately preceding clause.

Key words

yi.Ken ("he bought", H7069) — qal narrative verb, marking the main storyline action performed by Jacob (the subject is implied from context, not stated in this verse).
chel.Kat ("portion of", H2513A) — feminine singular construct noun, linking directly to "the field" that follows; it specifies a bounded piece of land rather than the whole field.
na.tah ("he had pitched", H5186) — qal perfect, indicating an action completed prior to the buying; this frames the relative clause "where he had pitched his tent."
Yad ("hand of", H3027K) — construct noun forming the phrase "from the hand of," a common idiom for a transaction's source or seller.
ke.si.Tah ("piece of money", H7192) — feminine singular noun denoting the unit of payment; its exact value is not specified elsewhere in the construct data provided.

What the text says

The verse opens with the narrative verb yi.Ken ("he bought", H7069), continuing the story sequence established by the preceding vav. The direct object is introduced by the marker 'et (H0853) and specified through a construct chain: chel.Kat ("portion of", H2513A) + ha.sa.Deh ("the field", H7704G). This construct phrase is then modified by a relative clause introduced by 'a.Sher ("where", H0834A), which uses the qal perfect na.tah ("he had pitched", H5186) to describe a prior action — the tent-pitching — using the adverb sham ("there", H8033G) and the construct noun 'o.hol ("tent of", H0168G) with the pronominal suffix o ("his", H9023).

The source of the purchase is marked by the preposition mi ("from", H9006) attached to Yad ("hand of", H3027K), forming the idiom "from the hand of the sons of Hamor." The chain of construct nouns — be.nei ("sons of", H1121A), cha.Mor (H2544), 'a.Vi ("father of", H0001G), she.Khem (H7927H) — identifies the sellers precisely by genealogical relation. The price is given with the preposition be ("for", H9003) governing the cardinal number me.'Ah ("a hundred", H3967) and the noun ke.si.Tah ("piece of money", H7192), a term whose precise monetary value is not indicated by the morphological data alone.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew ke.si.Tah (H7192, "piece[s] of money") is rendered in the LXX as ἀμνῶν ("lambs") and in the Vulgate as agnis ("lambs"), both giving "a hundred lambs" instead of a monetary unit. The Spanish RV1909 and BSB follow the Hebrew tradition with "piezas de moneda" / "pieces of silver," while the LXX and Vulgate diverge by rendering the payment as livestock rather than currency.

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