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Genesis 47

Gen. 47:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Pharaoh
Par`oh (Hebrew #6547)
Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings
KJV usage: Pharaoh.
Pronounce: par-o'
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
, The days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of the years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of my pilgrimage
maguwr (Hebrew #4033)
from 1481 in the sense of lodging; a temporary abode; by extension, a permanent residence
KJV usage: dwelling, pilgrimage, where sojourn, be a stranger. Compare 4032.
Pronounce: maw-goor'
Origin: or magur {maw-goor'}
are an hundred
me'ah (Hebrew #3967)
properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
KJV usage: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: or metyah {may-yaw'}
and thirty
shlowshiym (Hebrew #7970)
multiple of 7969; thirty; or (ordinal) thirtieth
KJV usage: thirty, thirtieth. Compare 7991.
Pronounce: shel-o-sheem'
Origin: or shloshiym {shel-o-sheem'}
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
: few
m`at (Hebrew #4592)
from 4591; a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
KJV usage: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, X very.
Pronounce: meh-at'
Origin: or miat {meh-awt'}
and evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
have the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of the years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of my life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
been, andc have not attained
nasag (Hebrew #5381)
to reach (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: ability, be able, attain (unto), (be able to, can) get, lay at, put, reach, remove, wax rich, X surely, (over-)take (hold of, on, upon).
Pronounce: naw-sag'
Origin: a primitive root
unto the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of the years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of the life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
of my fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
in the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of their pilgrimage
maguwr (Hebrew #4033)
from 1481 in the sense of lodging; a temporary abode; by extension, a permanent residence
KJV usage: dwelling, pilgrimage, where sojourn, be a stranger. Compare 4032.
Pronounce: maw-goor'
Origin: or magur {maw-goor'}
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Gen. 25:7‑8• 7And these [are the] days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred and seventy-five years.
 8And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, an old man and full, and was gathered to his people. (Gen. 25:7‑8)
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Gen. 35:28• 28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. (Gen. 35:28)

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Cross References

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The days.
1 Chron. 29:15• 15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. (1 Chron. 29:15)
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Psa. 39:12• 12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,{HR}And to my cry give ear;{HR}At my tears be not silent;{HR}For a stranger [am] I with thee,{HR}A sojourner like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)
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Psa. 119:19,54• 19For me I [am] a sojourner in the earth:{HR}Hide not thy commandments from me.
 54Thy statutes were songs{HR}In the house of my sojournings. (Psa. 119:19,54)
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2 Cor. 5:6• 6Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, while present in the body, we are absent from the Lord (2 Cor. 5:6)
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Heb. 11:9‑16• 9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as not his own, dwelling as he did in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;
 10for he waited for the city that hath the foundations, of which God is architect and master-builder.
 11By faith also Sarah herself received power for deposition of seed even beyond season of age, since she counted faithful him that promised.
 12Wherefore also there were born from one, and that one become dead, even as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand that is by the sea-shore.
 13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
 14For they that say such things make plain that they seek out a country.
 15And if indeed they called to mind that from which they went out, they might have had opportunity to return;
 16but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:9‑16)
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Heb. 13:14• 14For here we have not an abiding city, but we seek after the coming one. (Heb. 13:14)
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1 Peter 2:11• 11Beloved, I exhort [you] as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the fleshly lusts such as war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11)
and hundred.
Job 14:1• 1Man, born of woman,{HR}Is of few days, and full of trouble, (Job 14:1)
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Psa. 39:5• 5Behold, thou hast made my days handbreadths,{HR}And my lifetime as nothing before thee:{HR}Surely all vanity [is] every man appointed. Selah. (Psa. 39:5)
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Psa. 89:47‑48• 47Remember as to me what [is] life?{HR}Whyfor hast thou created all sons of man (Adam) vanity?
 48What man (geber) liveth and shall not see death?{HR}Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah. (Psa. 89:47‑48)
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Psa. 90:3‑12• 3Thou turnest man to crumbling,{HR}And sayest, Return, sons of men.
 4For a thousand years in thine eyes{HR}[Are] as yesterday when it passeth,{HR}And a watch in the night.
 5Thou sweepest them away— asleep are they;{HR}In the morning as grass changeth;
 6In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth.
 7For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
 9For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought.
 10The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
 11Who knoweth the power of thine anger,{HR}And, as thy fear, thy wrath?
 12To number our days thus make [us] know,{HR}And we will get us a heart of wisdom. (Psa. 90:3‑12)
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James 4:14• 14whereas ye know not what [will be] the morrow. Of what sort [is] your life? Why, it is a vapour that appeareth for a little and then disappeareth, (James 4:14)
have not.
Gen. 47:28• 28{i}And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.{/i} (Gen. 47:28)
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Gen. 5:27• 27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died. (Gen. 5:27)
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Gen. 11:11,24‑25• 11and Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
 24And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah;
 25and Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. (Gen. 11:11,24‑25)
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Gen. 25:7‑8• 7And these [are the] days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred and seventy-five years.
 8And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, an old man and full, and was gathered to his people. (Gen. 25:7‑8)
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Gen. 35:28• 28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. (Gen. 35:28)
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Gen. 50:26• 26{i}And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.{/i} (Gen. 50:26)
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Ex. 6:4• 4{i}And I established also my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were sojourners.{/i} (Ex. 6:4)
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Ex. 7:7• 7{i}And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.{/i} (Ex. 7:7)
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Deut. 34:7• 7{i}And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.{/i} (Deut. 34:7)
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Josh. 24:29• 29{i}And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, a hundred and ten years old.{/i} (Josh. 24:29)
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2 Sam. 19:32‑35• 32{i}And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.{/i}
 33{i}And the king said to Barzillai, Pass thou over with me, and I will maintain thee with me in Jerusalem.{/i}
 34{i}And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?{/i}
 35{i}I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?{/i} (2 Sam. 19:32‑35)
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Job 8:8‑9• 8Inquire now of the former generation,{HR}And give heed to the research of their fathers
 9(For we [are of] yesterday, and know not,{HR}For our days on earth are a shadow); (Job 8:8‑9)
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Job 42:16‑17• 16And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations;
 17and Job died, old and sated [with] days. (Job 42:16‑17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.