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Look,הִנֵּהsevenשֶׁבַעyearsשָׁנִיםare comingבָּאוֹתof greatגָּדוֹלabundanceשָׂבָעin allבְּכָלthe landאֶרֶץof Egypt.מִצְרָיִם
Genesis 41:29
Study it in the app“Look, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 41:29, word by word
- sevenשֶׁבַעsheva
seven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “sheva” appears- yearsשָׁנִיםshanim
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shanim” appears- are comingבָּאוֹתbaot
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baot” appears- of greatגָּדוֹלgadol
great
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gadol” appears- abundanceשָׂבָעsava
plenty
Plenty: having more than enough to eat.
Where else “sava” appears- the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of Egyptמִצְרָיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
28This is the thing that I said to Pharaoh: what Elohim is about to do he has shown Pharaoh.
29 · This verse (above)
30But after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will consume the land.
To study Genesis 41 in a group
1. What it says
What did Pharaoh dream, and what plan did Joseph propose (vv. 1-7, 33-36)?
2. What it means
Why did Pharaoh recognize that the spirit of Elohim was in Joseph (v. 38)?
3. How I live it
What can you wisely prepare today for hard times that might come?