Study it in the app“Jacob 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.””
Jacobיַעֲקֹבsaidוַיֹּאמֶרto Pharaoh,אֶל פַּרְעֹה“The daysיְמֵיof the yearsשְׁנֵיof my life as an alienמְגוּרַיare a hundredמְאַתand thirtyשְׁלֹשִׁים וּyears.שָׁנָהFewמְעַטand evilוְרָעִיםhave beenהָיוּthe daysיְמֵיof the yearsשְׁנֵיof my life,חַיַּיand they have notוְלֹאreachedהִשִּׂיגוּthe daysאֶת יְמֵיof the yearsשְׁנֵיof the lifeחַיֵּיof my fathersאֲבֹתַיin the daysבִּימֵיof their life as aliens.”מְגוּרֵיהֶם
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” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsPharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “paro” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appearsage
The years of a person's life.
Where else “shene” appearssojourning
The place where someone lives as a foreigner, without land of his own; a temporary dwelling.
Where else “megura” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meat” appearsthirty
Thirty; also "thirtieth".
Where else “sheloshim” appearsfew
A small amount: few in number, or a short time.
Where else “meat” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raim” appearsexist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “hayu” appearslife
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chaya” appearsovertake
To reach someone who is ahead.
Where else “hisigu” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avota” appears8Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
9 · This verse (above)
10Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
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?
