Genesis 46:31--47:12
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.]
