Study it in the app“Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, as food in the cities, and let them keep it.”
Let them gatherוְיִקְבְּצוּallאֶת כָּלthe foodאֹכֶלof theseהָאֵלֶּהgoodהַטֹּבֹתyearsהַשָּׁנִיםthat are coming,הַבָּאֹתand store upוְיִצְבְּרוּgrainבָרunder the handתַּחַת יַדof Pharaoh,פַּרְעֹהas foodאֹכֶלin the cities,בֶּעָרִיםand let them keep it.וְשָׁמָרוּ
collect
To gather things, like grain.
Where else “yikbtsu” appearsfood
Food, provisions.
Where else “ochel” appearsgood
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tovot” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shanim” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baot” appearsheap up, store
Heap up, pile up, store.
Where else “yitsbru” appearsgrain
Cereal already threshed and cleaned, the basis of bread.
Where else “var” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yad” appearsPharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “paro” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “arim” appearskeep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shamaru” appears34Let Pharaoh act, and appoint overseers over the land, and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.
35 · This verse (above)
36The food will be a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine that will be in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not be cut off by the famine.”
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?
