Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
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Gill's Exposition
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife,
died,.... Shuah was his wife's father, who was a Canaanite, Gen 38:2; what her name was is not certain, nor the exact time of her death;…
- The Family of Judah 1. עדלם ‛ǎdûllâm, ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה chı̂yrâh Chirah, “nobility?” 2. שׁוּע shûa‛, Shua‘, “luck, riches, cry.” 3. ער ‛êr, ‘Er, “watching.” 4. אונן 'ônân,…
Here is, 1. Judah's foolish friendship with a Canaanite-man. He went down from his brethren, and withdrew for a time from their society and his father's family, and got to be intimately acquainted…
Cambridge Bible
in thy father's house A widow without children went back to her father's family; cf. Lev 22:13; Rth 1:8. A widow with children remained in the family of her husband, and under its protection. Judah…