Genesis 46:1--47:12
Beer Sheba <0884> [A.M. 2298. B.C. 1706. Beer-sheba.]
offered <02076> [and offered.]
God <0430> [unto.]
vision <04759> [in the visions.]
Jacob Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
God <0430> [the God.]
afraid .... down <03372 03381> [fear not.]
make <07760> [I will.]
down <03381> [will go.]
myself .... bring ... back <05927> [and I will.]
Joseph <03130> [and Joseph.]
This last and most solemn office, as Mr. Hewlett observes, that could be paid to a parent, was generally performed by the nearest relation of the deceased. This promise must have given great consolation to the venerable patriarch's mind.
Jacob ............... Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
[in the waggons.]
Egypt <04714> [into Egypt.]
names <08034> [the names.]
Reuben <07205> [Reuben.]
Simeon <08095> [Simeon.]
Jemuel <03223> [Jemuel. or, Nemuel.]
Jakin <03199> [Jachin. or, Jarib.]
Zohar <06714> [Zohar. or, Zerah.]
Canaanite <03669> [Canaanitish.]
Levi <03878> [Levi.]
Gershon <01648> [Gershon. or, Gershom.]
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
Issachar <03485> [Issachar.]
Puah <06312> [Phuvah. or, Puah.]
Jashub <03102> [Job. or, Jashub.]
Zebulun <02074> [Zebulun.]
Leah <03812> [Leah.]
Paddan Aram <06307> [Padanaram.]
daughter ..... daughters <01323> [with his.]
sons ... Gad <01121 01410> [sons of.]
Zephon <06837> [Ziphion. or, Zephon.]
Ezbon <0675> [Ezbon. or, Ozni.]
Arodi <0722> [Arodi. or, Arod.]
Asher <0836> [Asher.]
Zilpah <02153> [Zilpah.]
Rachel <07354> [Rachel.]
Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
Manasseh <04519> [Manasseh.]
priest <03548> [priest. or, prince.]
sons <01121> [the sons.]
Ehi <0278> [Ehi.]
[Ahiram. Muppim.]
[Shupham.]
[Shuppim. Huppim.]
[Hupham.]
Dan <01835> [Dan.]
Hushim <02366> [Hushim.]
[Shuham.]
Naphtali <05321> [Naphtali.]
Jahziel <03183> [Jahzeel.]
[Jahziel.]
Bilhah <01090> [Bilhah.]
<03409> [loins. Heb. thigh.]
seventy <07657> [threescore and ten.]
Threescore and six were before mentioned, (ver. 26,) so that Joseph and his two sons, together with Jacob himself, complete the seventy persons here enumerated; and the number in ver. 15, 18, 22, and 25 amount to that number. The addition of five persons in the LXX. in ver. 20, was either the cause or the consequence of another difference here; for in that version the number is seventy-five ver. 15, 18, 22, 25.
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
accompany him <03384> [to direct.]
Goshen ......... Goshen <01657> [Goshen.]
Goshen seems to have been a city, after which the land of Goshen was called. The LXX. render it by [Heroonpolis,] Heroonpolis, "city of Heroon;" which by some writers is simply called Heroum, and is by the ancient geographers placed in the eastern part of Egypt, not far from the Arabian Gulf.
chariot <04818> [his chariot.]
hugged ... neck ...... neck <05307 06677> [fell on.]
shepherds <07462> [shepherds.]
livestock <04735> [their trade hath been to feed cattle. Heb. they are men of cattle.]
brought <0935> [and they.]
occupation <04639> [What is.]
servants <05650> [Thy servants.]
care <07462> [for every.]
From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.
Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
land ......... land <0776> [in the land.]
introduced <03322> [presented.]
occupation <04639> [What is.]
care <07462> [shepherds.]
live as temporary residents <01481> [For to.]
famine <07458> [for the famine.]
servants .................. servants <05650> [let thy.]
before <06440> [is.]
Goshen <01657> [Goshen.]
men <02428 0582> [men of activity.]
{Anshey chayil,} men of strength, power, ability, or prowess. It implies both fitness of mind and body; and so valour, prudence, diligence, and virtue.
charge <08269> [rulers.]
livestock <04735> [cattle]
{Mikneh}, from {kanah}, to posses, signifies property or possession of any kind, though it frequently is used for cattle, because in ancient times they constituted the principal part of a man's possessions.
Jacob ....... Jacob <03290> [And Jacob.]
How ..... lived <04100 02416> [How old art thou. Heb. How many are the days of the years of thy life?]
All ......... All <03117> [The days.]
[and hundred.]
<05381> [have not.]
Rameses <07486> [Rameses.]
provided <03557> [nourished.]
father ....... father's <01> [his father.]
according ....... little children <06310 02945> [according to their families. or, as a little child is nourished. Heb. according to the little ones.]
