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Genesis 41:25

in Genesis 41

At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh.

KJV

And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

This verse in Genesis 41

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do - Joseph thus shows the Egyptian king that though the ordinary cause of plenty or want is the river Nile, yet its inundations are under the direction of God: the dreams are sent by him, not only to signify beforehand the plenty and want, but to show also that all these circumstances, however fortuitous they may appear to man, are under the direction of an overruling Providence.

This site's exposition

The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same

on Genesis 41:25-27

Joseph says first that the two dreams are one, and second that God has told Pharaoh what He is about to do. Seven good cows and seven ripe heads are seven years, and the thin ugly ones are seven years of famine. He says that to a pagan king's face. Clarke notes that Egypt credited the Nile with the abundance and the famine, and Joseph puts the river under God's hand.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, the dream of Pharaoh is one,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The repetition of the dream in two different forms was designed to show the absolute certainty and speedy arrival of this public crisis; the interpretation was accompanied by several suggestions of practical wisdom for meeting so great an emergency as was impending.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יוֹסֵף֙Joseph

    yosefH3130 →213 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פַּרְעֹ֔הPharaoh

    parohH6547 →274 times

  • חֲל֥וֹם[the] dream of

    chalomH2472 →65 times

  • פַּרְעֹ֖הPharaoh

    parohH6547 →274 times

  • אֶחָ֣ד[is] one

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • ה֑וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • אֵ֣ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֧ר[that] which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • עֹשֶׂ֖ה[is] about to do

    ʾosehH6213 →2628 times

  • הִגִּ֥ידhe has told

    higidH5046 →370 times

  • לְפַרְעֹֽה׃to Pharaoh

    lefarohH6547 →274 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Revelation 4:1

    After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show…

    it leads to

    • Revelation 11:12

      And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.

    • Exodus 24:12

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written…

    • Revelation 1:19

      Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.

    • Revelation 1:10

      On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

    • Revelation 1:1–3

      This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,

  • Through

    Daniel 2:45

    And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 28:16

      So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

  • Through

    Isaiah 43:9

    All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 44:7–9

      Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take…

    • Isaiah 46:10

      I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Where this verse is studied

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About Genesis

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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 (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.