Genesis 35:17
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By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.

Fear not.

Genesis 30:24 And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son.

1 Samuel 4:19-21 And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden. . . .

Context
Benjamin is Born, Rachel Dies
16And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, 17By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.18And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son.

Genesis 35:18
And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.

Lexicon
During
וַיְהִ֥י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

her severe
בְהַקְשֹׁתָ֖הּ (ḇə·haq·šō·ṯāh)
Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7185: To be hard, severe or fierce

labor,
בְּלִדְתָּ֑הּ (bə·liḏ·tāh)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

the midwife
הַמְיַלֶּ֙דֶת֙ (ham·yal·le·ḏeṯ)
Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

said
וַתֹּ֨אמֶר (wat·tō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to her,
לָ֤הּ (lāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

“Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

be afraid,
תִּ֣ירְאִ֔י (tî·rə·’î)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten

for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

you
לָ֖ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

are having
זֶ֥ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2088: This, that

another
גַם־ (ḡam-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

son.”
בֵּֽן׃ (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son


Additional Translations
During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; you shall have this son also.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son.

And it came to pass in her hard labour, that the midwife said to her, Be of good courage, for thou shalt also have this son.

And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son.

And it came to pass when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, 'Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.'
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