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Elohimאֱלֹהִיםsent meוַיִּשְׁלָחֵנִיbefore youלִפְנֵיכֶםto preserveלָשׂוּםfor youלָכֶםa remnantשְׁאֵרִיתon the earth,בָּאָרֶץand to keep you aliveוּלְהַחֲיוֹת לָכֶםby a greatלִ גְּדֹלָהdeliverance.פְלֵיטָה
Genesis 45:7
Study it in the app“Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.”
Joseph to his brothers: it was not you who sent me here, but GodProvidence
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 45:7, word by word
- Elohimאֱלֹהִיםelohim
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appears- sent meיִּשְׁלָחֵyishlache
send
To send someone or something.
Where else “yishlache” appears- before youפְנֵיfene
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fene” appears- to preserveשׂוּםsum
appoint
To set someone as leader, or fix something.
Where else “sum” appears- a remnantשְׁאֵרִיתsheerit
remnant
Remnant: those left alive after a disaster.
Where else “sheerit” appears- on the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- and to keep you aliveהַחֲיוֹתhachayot
keep alive
To make someone go on living, or rescue them from death.
Where else “hachayot” appears- by a greatגְּדֹלָהgedola
great
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedola” appears- deliveranceפְלֵיטָהfeleta
escape
Managing to get out of danger: the escape.
Where else “feleta” appears
The context
6For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing or harvest.
7 · This verse (above)
8So now it was not you who sent me here, but Elohim; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
To study Genesis 45 in a group
1. What it says
What did Joseph say to his brothers when he made himself known (vv. 3-5)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that Joseph says Elohim sent him ahead of them to preserve life (vv. 5-8)?
3. How I live it
How can you look with a wider view at someone who hurt you, without denying the pain?