Study it in the app“The 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.””
The foodהָאֹכֶלwill beוְהָיָהa reserveלְפִקָּדוֹןfor the landלָאָרֶץfor the sevenלְשֶׁבַעyearsשְׁנֵיof famineהָרָעָבthatאֲשֶׁרwill beתִּהְיֶיןָin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Egypt,מִצְרָיִםso that the landוְ הָאָרֶץwill not be cut offלֹא תִכָּרֵתby the famine.”בָּרָעָב
food
Food, provisions.
Where else “ochel” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “haya” appearsreserve
What is stored for hard times.
Where else “fikadon” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsseven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “sheva” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shene” appearsfamine, hunger
Hunger; famine, a shortage of food in a region.
Where else “raav” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearscut off
To wipe out, or be shut out from the people.
Where else “tikaret” appearsEgypt
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).
35Let 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.
36 · This verse (above)
37The proposal seemed good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.
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?
