Genesis 40:15
in Genesis 40For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
KJV
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
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This verse in Genesis 40
Commentary
6 notes on this verseFor indeed I was stolen - גנב גנבתי gunnob gunnobti, stolen, I have been stolen - most assuredly I was stolen; and here also have I done nothing. These were simple assertions, into the proof of which he was ready to enter if called on.
This site's exposition
please remember me
on Genesis 40:14-15
This is the only thing Joseph asks of anyone. He asks the cupbearer to remember him to Pharaoh and get him out of the prison. The word behind remember is the one Genesis uses when God remembered Noah at 8:1 and remembered Rachel at 30:22. Wesley notes that Joseph says only that he was kidnapped, taken from the land of the Hebrews.
This site's exposition
I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews
Kidnapped is a doubled verb in Hebrew, stolen, yes stolen. The word for dungeon is bor, the pit of Genesis 37:24, so this prison and his first prison share a name. The land of the Hebrews is a name for Canaan used in this verse alone.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
He doth not reflect upon his brethren that sold him, only saith, I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews. Nor doth he reflect on the wrong done him in this imprisonment by his mistress that was his persecutor, and his master that was his judge, but mildly avers his own innocency.
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews,....
He does not reflect upon his brethren that sold him; he only says, I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, that is, unjustly sent thence, no matter where the fault was.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
“If you will remember me when it will be well with you, I now pray for the kindness and truth you will do to me by making mention of me to Pharaoh.” And if the word na. V’asitha ‘na’ imadi chesed.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| גֻנֹּ֣ב | guno | certainly <to be stolen> | H1589 → | 40 times |
| גֻּנַּ֔בְתִּי | gunavti | I was stolen | H1589 → | 40 times |
| מֵאֶ֖רֶץ | meeretz | from [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| הָעִבְרִ֑ים | haivrim | the Hebrews | H5680 → | 34 times |
| וְגַם־ | vegam- | and also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| פֹּה֙ | poh | here | H6311 → | 82 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| עָשִׂ֣יתִֽי | ʾasiti | I have done | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מְא֔וּמָה | meumah | anything | H3972 → | 32 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| שָׂמ֥וּ | samu | they have put | H7760 → | 584 times |
| אֹתִ֖י | ʾoti | <obj.> me | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בַּבּֽוֹר׃ | babor | in the pit | H953 → | 66 times |
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
גֻנֹּ֣בcertainly <to be stolen>
gunoH1589 →40 times
גֻּנַּ֔בְתִּיI was stolen
gunavtiH1589 →40 times
מֵאֶ֖רֶץfrom [the] land of
meeretzH776 →2504 times
הָעִבְרִ֑יםthe Hebrews
haivrimH5680 →34 times
וְגַם־and also
vegam-H1571 →769 times
פֹּה֙here
pohH6311 →82 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
עָשִׂ֣יתִֽיI have done
ʾasitiH6213 →2628 times
מְא֔וּמָהanything
meumahH3972 →32 times
כִּֽי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
שָׂמ֥וּthey have put
samuH7760 →584 times
אֹתִ֖י<obj.> me
ʾotiH853 →10935 times
בַּבּֽוֹר׃in the pit
baborH953 →66 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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 39:20So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
it leads to
- Isaiah 53:8
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
- Genesis 41:9–14
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
- Daniel 3:21–22
So they were tied up, wearing robes, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, and they were thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.
- Psalms 105:18–19
They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
- 2 Timothy 2:9
for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
- Isaiah 53:8
About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.