Genesis 38:5 - Exposition

And she yet again conceived (lit; and she added again ) , and bare a son; and called his name Shelah :—"Prayer" (Gesenius), "Peace" (Furst)— and he ( i.e. Judah) was — sc; absent (Gerlach); or, translating impersonally, it was, i.e. the event happened (Murphy)— at Chezib ,—probably the same as Achzib ( Joshua 15:44 ; Micah 1:14 , Micah 1:15 ) and Chezeba ( 1 Chronicles 4:22 ), which in the partitioning of the land fell to the sons of Shelah, and was here mentioned that Shelah's descendants might know the birthplace of their ancestor (Keil); or the fact of Judah's absence at the birth of his third son may be recorded as the reason of the name, "Peace," "Rest, "Prosperity, which the child received (Gerlach)— when she bare him —literally, in her bearing of him .