Genesis 49:22 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.

KJV

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis (420)

(Verse 22 and following) The son of Joseph grew up, the son of Joseph grown tall above the fountain of the daughter, walking with a composed stride on the wall. And they provoked him, and contended with him, and were angry against him, having arrows. He sat in the strength of his bow, and the chains of his hands were broken, from the hands of the mighty Jacob. From there will come the shepherd, the stone of Israel from the God of your father: and the rest.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

His two sons were as branches of a vine, or other spreading plant, running over the wall. Note, God can make those fruitful, great comforts to themselves and others, who have been looked upon as dry and withered. More is recorded in the history concerning Joseph than concerning any other of Jacob's sons; and therefore what Jacob says of him is historical as well as prophetical.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The sum of a fruitful vine - This appears to me to refer to Jacob himself, who was blessed with such a numerous posterity that in two hundred and fifteen years after this his own descendants amounted to upwards of 600,000 effective men; and the figures here are intended to point out the continual growth and increase of his posterity. Jacob was a fruitful tree planted by a fountain, which because it was good would yield good fruit; and because it was planted near a fountain, from being continually watered, would be perpetually fruitful.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בֵּ֤ן	ben	[is] a son of	H1121 →
פֹּרָת֙	po.Rat	a fruit-bearer	H6509 →
יוֹסֵ֔ף	yo.Sef	Joseph	H3130 →
בֵּ֥ן	ben	a son of	H1121 →
פֹּרָ֖ת	po.Rat	a fruit-bearer	H6509 →
עֲלֵי־	'a.lei-	at	H5921 →
עָ֑יִן	'A.yin	a spring	H5869 →
בָּנ֕וֹת	ba.Not	daughters	H1323 →
צָעֲדָ֖ה	tza.'a.Dah	she will climb	H6805 →
עֲלֵי־	'a.lei-	over	H5921 →
שֽׁוּר׃	Shur	a wall	H7791 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
leads to
- Ezekiel 19:10
  Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- Psalms 52:8
  But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
- Romans 11:24
  For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their…
- Proverbs 5:15–18
  Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- Jeremiah 11:16
  The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
Through
Genesis 41:52
And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
leads to
- Genesis 50:23
  He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
- Genesis 17:6
  I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
- Amos 6:6
  You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

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