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RBT Translation:
And Destroyed-of-El has begotten אֶת-Stall-Fed.771 Eight of these ones has Queen borne to Snorter, brother of Father-of-Tumult.
LITV Translation:
And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, the brother of Abraham.
ESV Translation:
(Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
these are eight sons, which Milcah bore to Nahor the brother of Abraham.

Footnotes

771

Strong’s #7259, Ribqah. Stall-fed or fattened. From an unused root meaning to tie up; a stall (for a bought-one) -- X fat(-ted), stall. When one wanted to fatten up an animal they would tie it in a stall and let it feed there. Hence the word marbeq (#4770) stall,

The Lying-down-ones over couches of a tooth, and spread over your beds, and ones-who-eat lambs from the sheep, and calves from a middle of a stall [marbeq].” Amos 6:4 literal

And she has broken-forth to-yourselves fearing my name, a sun of justice, and health in her extremities [wings], and you have gone out, and have spread-out like calves of a stall [marbeq].” Malachi 4:2 literal