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Then Jacobוַ יַעֲקֹבblessedיְבָרֶךְPharaohאֶת פַּרְעֹהand went outוַיֵּצֵאfrom the presenceמִלִּפְנֵיof Pharaoh.פַרְעֹה
Genesis 47:10
Study it in the app“Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 47:10, word by word
- Then Jacobיַעֲקֹבyaakov
Jacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appears- blessedיְבָרֶךְyevarech
bless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “yevarech” appears- Pharaohפַּרְעֹהparo
Pharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “paro” appears- and went outיֵּצֵאyetse
go out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetse” appears- from the presenceפְנֵיfene
presence
Literally "the face": being before someone, face to face.
Where else “fene” appears
The context
9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my life as an alien are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their life as aliens.”
10 · This verse (above)
11Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
To study Genesis 47 in a group
1. What it says
What did Joseph do for his family and for Egypt during the famine (vv. 11-12, 14-26)?
2. What it means
How does Jacob describe his years to Pharaoh, and what does he do when he arrives and when he leaves (vv. 7-10)?
3. How I live it
How can you help someone in need with what you have?