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Genesis 49

Gen. 49:29 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he charged
tsavah (Hebrew #6680)
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
KJV usage: appoint, (for-)bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Pronounce: tsaw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
them, and 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 them, I am to be gathered
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
unto my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
: bury
qabar (Hebrew #6912)
to inter
KJV usage: X in any wise, bury(-ier).
Pronounce: kaw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
me with 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
u in the cave
m`arah (Hebrew #4631)
a cavern (as dark)
KJV usage: cave, den, hole.
Pronounce: meh-aw-raw'
Origin: from 5783
that is in the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
of Ephron
`Ephrown (Hebrew #6085)
fawn-like; Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine
KJV usage: Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).
Pronounce: ef-rone'
Origin: from the same as 6081
the Hittite
Chittiy (Hebrew #2850)
a Chittite, or descendant of Cheth
KJV usage: Hittite, Hittities.
Pronounce: khit-tee'
Origin: patronymically from 2845
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Gen. 47:30• 30but when I shall lie with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word. (Gen. 47:30)
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2 Sam. 19:37• 37Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham: let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what seems good to thee. (2 Sam. 19:37)

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Ephron,
Fathers,
Hittites

Cross References

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gathered.
Rom. 12:6‑21• 6But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether it be prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
 7or service, let us occupy ourselves in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;
 8or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.
 9Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:
 10as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:
 11as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.
 12As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:
 13distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.
 14Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.
 15Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.
 16Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:
 17recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:
 18if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;
 19not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord.
 20If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
 21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Rom. 12:6‑21)
bury me.
Gen. 15:15• 15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. (Gen. 15:15)
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Gen. 25:8‑17• 8And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and full of days; and was gathered to his peoples.
 9And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which was opposite to Mamre--
 10the field that Abraham had purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
 11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi.
 12And these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's bondwoman, bore to Abraham.
 13And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names according to their generations: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
 14and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
 15Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah.
 16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their hamlets and their encampments--twelve princes of their peoples.
 17And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples. (Gen. 25:8‑17)
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Gen. 35:29• 29And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. (Gen. 35:29)
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Heb. 12:23• 23the universal gathering; and to the assembly of the firstborn who are registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect; (Heb. 12:23)
in the cave.
Gen. 47:30• 30but when I shall lie with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word. (Gen. 47:30)
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2 Sam. 19:37• 37Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham: let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what seems good to thee. (2 Sam. 19:37)
Ephron.
Gen. 50:13• 13and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre. (Gen. 50:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he charged them, and said to them, I am gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,