Genesis 50:18–21

In its context

Its words in the original

• יֵּלְכוּyelchu· go, walk

  Go, walk, depart; in the causative form, lead or bring.

• אֶחָיechay· brother

  Brother; also a close relative, or someone of the same people.

• יִּפְּלוּyiplu· fall

  Fall; also fall upon (attack), lie down, desert to someone. In the causative form, "make fall", throw down, cast (lots).

• פָנָיfanay· face, presence

  Face. From there "surface" (the face of something) and "presence" (being before someone's face); with a preposition it means "before" or "in front of".

• יֹּאמְרוּyomru· say

  Say, speak. The most common verb for bringing in what someone says; sometimes "think" (say to oneself) or "command".

• עֲבָדִיםavadim· slave, servant

  Slave, servant: someone who belongs to another or is in his service. It can be a slave, a worker or a high official of the king; before God, one who serves him. "Your servant" is a polite way to say "I".

• יוֹסֵףyosef· 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".

• תִּירָאוּtirau· fear

  Fear. It can be fright before a danger or deep reverence before God ("fear YHWH"). In some forms, be fearsome, awesome.

• אֱלֹהִיםelohim· Elohim, God, gods

  The Hebrew word usually translated "God". This translation keeps "Elohim" when it speaks of the one true God, the Creator, the God of Israel. The word ends like a plural, but it does not mean several: for him the verb is singular ("Elohim created"); the plural form expresses greatness. The same word as a common noun names the "gods" of other peoples, and there it is a true plural, translated "gods". It is also used of mighty ones or judges.

• חֲשַׁבְתֶּםchashavtem· think, count, devise

  Think, consider; count something as something else ("count as", "credit as"). Also devise, design, plan, often evil: "the work of a skilled craftsman" is, literally, "the work of one who designs".

• רָעָהraa· evil, bad, harm

  Bad; evil. It includes what is morally wrong and also what does harm: misfortune, disaster, distress.

• טֹבָהtova· good

  Good in the widest sense: pleasant, beautiful, useful, right, of good quality. As a noun, "good", "good things", "well-being".

• עֲשֹׂהaso· do, make

  Do, make, in the widest sense: build, produce, carry out, keep (a command), prepare.

• יּוֹםyom· day

  Day: the hours of light, or a whole day from one evening to the next. Also an indefinite time or age ("in the day that...", "in those days").

• הַחֲיֹתhachayot· live

  Live, have life; recover. In the causative form, give life, keep alive, revive.

• עַםam· people

  People: a human group joined by kinship, history and destiny. "My people", said by God, is Israel. Also the people as a crowd, or troops.

• רָבrav· many, great

  Many, much, abundant, great; also "elder" or "chief".

• אֲכַלְכֵּלachalkel· provide for

  Sustain, provide someone with what he needs to live; also hold, contain.

• טַפְּtap· little ones

  Little ones: the children of a family.

• יְנַחֵםyenachem· relent, be sorry, comfort

  A verb of deep feeling, with two uses: "comfort" someone, and "be sorry" for something or "relent". Said of God, it expresses his grief at evil or that he does not carry out a punishment he had announced; not that he had made a mistake (compare Numbers 23:19).

• יְדַבֵּרyedaber· speak

  Speak, talk, say; also promise or command.

• לִבָּliba· heart

  Heart. In Hebrew it is not only the place of feelings: it is the center of the person, where one thinks, decides and wills; also the middle of something.