Genesis 27:11 - Exposition

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man ( vide Genesis 25:25 ) and I am a smooth man — חָלָק , smooth (opposed to שָׂעִיר ," hairy); the primary idea of which is to cut off the hair. Cf . χαλκός χάλιξ κόλαξ γλυκός, γλοῖος γλίσχρος ; glacies, glaber, gladius, glisco; gluten, glatt, gleiten, glas—all of which convey the notion of smoothness.