To RECOGNIZE, identify, acknowledge — the verb on which two of Genesis's cruelest scenes turn, and the same imperative both times. At Isaac's bedside the blind father 'did NOT recognize him, because his hands were hairy' (27:23), and Jacob takes a blessing that is not his. Ten chapters later Jacob's sons send him a bloodied tunic with the words haker-na — 'RECOGNIZE, PLEASE' — and he does (37:32-33), and believes a lie. Then, one chapter after that, Tamar sends Judah his own seal and staff with the identical phrase, haker-na (38:25) — the brother who engineered the sale receiving his own two words back. The verb is how this family lies to its fathers and how it is finally caught. ⚠ The same root also runs the opposite direction: its noun form (nokri) names a FOREIGNER, someone kept at a distance, which makes Jeremiah 24:5's use of it pointed — 'so I will regard (akkir) the exiles of Judah,' God formally recognizing the deported community as the good figs of his own vision, the favorable sense of a root that can just as easily mean the reverse of welcome. KJV keeps the root-echo closest there, 'so will I acknowledge them'; ASV/NIV/NWT all unpack it as 'regard.' → first discussed at Gen 37:32