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Pharaohפַּרְעֹהsaidוַיֹּאמֶרto Jacob,אֶל יַעֲקֹב“How manyכַּמָּהare the daysיְמֵיof the yearsשְׁנֵיof your life?”חַיֶּיךָ
Genesis 47:8
Study it in the app“Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?””
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 47:8, word by word
- Pharaohפַּרְעֹהparo
Pharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “paro” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- to 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- are the daysיְמֵיyeme
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appears- of the yearsשְׁנֵיshene
age
The years of a person's life.
Where else “shene” appears- of your lifeחַיֶּיchaye
life
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chaye” appears
The context
7Then Joseph brought Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 · This verse (above)
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.”
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?