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Josephיוֹסֵףreturnedוַיָּשָׁבto Egypt,מִצְרַיְמָהheהוּאand his brothersוְאֶחָיוand allוְכָלwho had gone upהָעֹלִיםwith himאִתּוֹto buryלִקְבֹּרhis father,אֶת אָבִיוafterאַחֲרֵיhe had buriedקָבְרוֹhis father.אֶת אָבִיו
Genesis 50:14
Study it in the app“Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 50:14, word by word
- Josephיוֹסֵףyosef
Joseph
Joseph, a name borne by several Israelites, above all the son of Jacob and Rachel, sold into Egypt, who became ruler there and saved his family; his sons Ephraim and Manasseh became tribes. The name means "may he add".
Where else “yosef” appears- returnedיָּשָׁבyashav
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashav” appears- to Egyptמִצְרַיְמָmitsrayma
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayma” appears- and his brothersאֶחָיechay
brother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “echay” appears- who had gone upעֹלִיםolim
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “olim” appears- to buryקְבֹּרkebor
bury
Bury.
Where else “kebor” appears- his fatherאָבִיavi
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
13his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field that Abraham bought as a possession for a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, facing Mamre.
14 · This verse (above)
15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the evil that we did to him?”
To study Genesis 50 in a group
1. What it says
What did Joseph say to his brothers when they feared he would take revenge (vv. 15-21)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that they planned evil against him, but Elohim planned it for good (v. 20)?
3. How I live it
Whom do you need to forgive or ask forgiveness from, and what step can you take?