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Genesis 41:28

in Genesis 41

It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

That is the thing which I spake unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do he hath showed unto Pharaoh.

KJV

This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.

This verse in Genesis 41

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

It is just as I said to Pharaoh

on Genesis 41:28-31

The famine will be heavy enough to wipe out the memory of the good years. Gill notes that abundance on this scale rested on the Nile rising high year after year, and seven such years are credited to God. The language of forgetting comes back at verse 51, over Manasseh.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh,.... As an interpretation of his dreams: what God is about to do, he sheweth unto Pharaoh: the events of fourteen years with respect to plenty and sterility.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • ה֣וּאthat

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • הַדָּבָ֔ר[is] the word

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבַּ֖רְתִּיI spoke

    dibartiH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פַּרְעֹ֑הPharaoh

    parohH6547 →274 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֧ר[that] which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • עֹשֶׂ֖ה[is] about to do

    ʾosehH6213 →2628 times

  • הֶרְאָ֥הhe has shown

    herahH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פַּרְעֹֽה׃Pharaoh

    parohH6547 →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

    Genesis 41:16

    “I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 3:5

      Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

    • Genesis 40:8

      “We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

    • Daniel 2:47

      The king said to Daniel, “Your God is truly the God of gods and Lord of kings, the Revealer of Mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”

    • Acts 3:12

      And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had…

    • 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.

  • Through

    Genesis 41:25

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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…

    • 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…

    • Daniel 2:28–29

      But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your…

Where this verse is studied

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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.