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Genesis 41:56

in Genesis 41

When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

KJV

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

This verse in Genesis 41

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Over all the face of the earth - The original, כל פני הארץ col peney haarets, should be translated, all the face of that land, viz., Egypt, as it is explained at the end of the verse.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the famine was over all the face of the earth,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But improvident as men commonly are in the time of prosperity, they found themselves in want, and would have starved by thousands had not Joseph anticipated and provided for the protracted calamity.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וְהָרָעָ֣בand the famine

    veharaavH7458 →101 times

  • הָיָ֔הit was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • עַ֖לover

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • פְּנֵ֣י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וַיִּפְתַּ֨חand he opened

    vaiyiftachH6605 →144 times

  • יוֹסֵ֜ףJoseph

    yosefH3130 →213 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בָּהֶם֙[was] in <the> them

    bahem

  • וַיִּשְׁבֹּ֣רand he bought grain

    vaiyishborH7666 →21 times

  • לְמִצְרַ֔יִםto Egypt

    lemitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • וַיֶּחֱזַ֥קand it was severe

    vaiyechezakH2388 →291 times

  • הָֽרָעָ֖בthe famine

    haraavH7458 →101 times

  • בְּאֶ֥רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִצְרָֽיִם׃Egypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 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

    Acts 17:26

    From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:7–8

      Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

    • Genesis 3:20

      And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

    • Malachi 2:10

      Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

    • Romans 5:12–19

      Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

    • 1 Corinthians 15:22

      For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

  • Through

    Zechariah 5:3

    Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:15

      You shall not steal.

    • Isaiah 24:6

      Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

  • Through

    Isaiah 23:17

    And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

    it leads to

    • Nahum 3:4

      because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

Where this verse is studied

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About Genesis

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).