Genesis Chapter 29 verse 17 Holy Bible
And Leah's eyes were tender. But Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
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And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.
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And the eyes of Leah were tender; but Rachel was of beautiful form and beautiful countenance.
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Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
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Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.
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Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
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and the eyes of Leah `are' tender, and Rachel hath been fair of form and fair of appearance.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Leah was tender eyed. Literally, the eyes of Leah were tender, i.e. weak, dun; ἀσθενεῖς (LXX.), lippi (Vulgate); cf. 1 Samuel 16:12. Leah's face was not ugly (Bohlen), only her eyes were not clear and lustrous, dark and sparkling, as in all probability Rachel's were (Knobel). But Rachel was beautiful and well favored. Literally, beautiful in form (i.e. in outline and make of body; cf. Genesis 39:6; also 1 Samuel 16:18 - "a man of form," i.e. formosus, well made) and beautiful in appearance (i.e. of a lovely countenance). "If authentic history was not in the way, Leah, as the mother of Judah, and of the Davidic Messianic line, ought to have carried off the prize of beauty after Sarah and Rebakah (Lange).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Leah was tender eyed.--Leah, whose name signifies languor, weariness, had dull bleared eyes. Probably she suffered, as so many do in that hot sandy region, from some form of ophthalmia. Rachel (Heb., the ewe) was, on the contrary, "beautiful and well favoured" (Heb., beautiful in form and beautiful in look). Leah's bleared eyes would be regarded in the East as a great defect, just as bright eyes were much admired. (See 1Samuel 16:12, where David is described as fair of eyes.) Yet it was not Rachel, with her fair face and well-proportioned figure, and her husband's lasting love, that was the mother of the progenitor of the Messiah, but the weary-eyed Leah.