Study it in the app“He said to me, ‘Look, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make you an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your offspring after you as an eternal possession.’”
He saidוַיֹּאמֶרto me,אֵלַי‘Look,הִנְIנִיwill make you fruitfulמַפְרְךָand multiply you,וְהִרְבִּיתִךָand I will make youוּנְתַתִּיךָan assemblyלִקְהַלof peoples,עַמִּיםand I will giveוְנָתַתִּיthisהַזֹּאתlandאֶת הָאָרֶץto your offspringלְזַרְעֲךָafter youאַחֲרֶיךָas an eternalעוֹלָםpossession.’אֲחֻזַּת
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsbe fruitful
Bear fruit; be fruitful, have descendants.
Where else “mafr” appearsmultiply
To grow in number.
Where else “hirbiti” appearsmake
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “netati” appearsassembly
The people gathered before YHWH.
Where else “kehal” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “amim” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsoffspring
The children, grandchildren and whole line that come from someone.
Where else “zara” appearsforever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appearspossession
Possession: land that someone holds as his own.
Where else “achuzat” appears3Jacob said to Joseph, “El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
4 · This verse (above)
5And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
1. What it says
Whom did Jacob bless, and what did he do with his hands (vv. 13-20)?
2. What it means
Why was Joseph displeased when he saw Jacob’s hands, and how did his father answer (vv. 17-19)?
3. How I live it
How can you bless with your words the children or young people around you?
