Genesis 41:29 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 41:29

Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

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ASV

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

KJV

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

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Commentary

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Hebrew Questions on Genesis (420)

(Verse 29.) Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt. I wonder how the Hebrew word () Sabee, which we translated above as abundance or satiety, in reference to the well that the servants of Isaac dug, can now be translated most accurately as oath when we use the Seventy (Septuagint) translation. Both oath and seven and satiety and abundance can be understood as the context and order demand. But also in subsequent places, wherever abundance is mentioned, the same word is written in Hebrew.

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John Gill

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Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. Not only a sufficiency but an abundance, even to luxury, as when the Nile rose to sixteen cubits, as Pliny observes (m); which, though a natural cause, was owing to God, and that it should thus overflow for seven years successively, and cause such a continued plenty, can be ascribed to no other. (m) Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 9.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּ֛ה	hi.Neh	there!	H2009 →
שֶׁ֥בַע	She.va'	seven	H7651 →
שָׁנִ֖ים	sha.Nim	years	H8141 →
בָּא֑וֹת	ba.'ot	[are] about to come	H935 →
שָׂבָ֥ע	sa.Va'	plenty	H7647 →
גָּד֖וֹל	ga.Dol	great	H1419 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	[will be] in all	H3605 →
אֶ֥רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרָֽיִם׃	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →

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

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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
Genesis 41:26
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
leads to
- Genesis 41:47
  During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.
- Genesis 41:2
  when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
- Genesis 41:5
  but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.
- 1 John 5:7
  For there are three that testify:
- 1 Corinthians 10:4
  and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
Through
Genesis 41:49
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
leads to
- Psalms 78:27
  He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
- 1 Samuel 13:5
  Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…
- Genesis 22:17
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

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