Genesis 37:19
in Genesis 37“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
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ASV
And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
KJV
And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
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This verse in Genesis 37
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Behold, this dreamer cometh--literally, "master of dreams"--a bitterly ironical sneer. Dreams being considered suggestions from above, to make false pretensions to having received one was detested as a species of blasphemy, and in this light Joseph was regarded by his brethren as an artful pretender.
This site's exposition
saw him in the distance
on Genesis 37:18-19
The brothers settle the plot while Joseph is still in the distance, before he reaches them and before a word passes, which Wesley reads as malice thought out in cold blood. Their name for him, that dreamer, is in Hebrew master of dreams, and JFB hears a sneer at a man they took for a pretender. Cain killed his brother in a field at Genesis 4:8.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
A commentator
Clement of RomeClement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4 · Written before 99.
proposed
Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And they said one to another,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Behold, this dreamer cometh - בעל החלמות baal hachalomoth, this master of dreams, this master dreamer. A form of speech which conveys great contempt.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ | vaiyomeru | and they said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אִ֣ישׁ | ʾish | each | H376 → | 1663 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אָחִ֑יו | ʾachiv | brother his | H251 → | 630 times |
| הִנֵּ֗ה | hineh | there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| בַּ֛עַל | baal | [the] master of | H1167 → | 84 times |
| הַחֲלֹמ֥וֹת | hachalomot | <the> dreams | H2472 → | 65 times |
| הַלָּזֶ֖ה | halazeh | this | H1976 → | |
| בָּֽא׃ | ba' | [is] coming | H935 → | 2568 times |
וַיֹּאמְר֖וּand they said
vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times
אִ֣ישׁeach
ʾishH376 →1663 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
אָחִ֑יוbrother his
ʾachivH251 →630 times
הִנֵּ֗הthere!
hinehH2009 →843 times
בַּ֛עַל[the] master of
baalH1167 →84 times
הַחֲלֹמ֥וֹת<the> dreams
hachalomotH2472 →65 times
הַלָּזֶ֖הthis
halazehH1976 →
בָּֽא׃[is] coming
ba'H935 →2568 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 28:12And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
it leads to
- John 1:51
Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
- Numbers 12:6
He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
- Genesis 32:1–2
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
- Job 33:15–16
In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
- Genesis 15:1
After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
- John 1:51
Through
Genesis 37:5Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
it leads to
- Genesis 37:4
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 28:12
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
- Genesis 37:4
Through
Genesis 37:11And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
it leads to
- Acts 7:9
Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
- Acts 7:9
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Clement of Rome, Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.