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Genesis 49

Gen. 49:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
, thoux art he whom thy brethren
'ach (Hebrew #251)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1))
KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Pronounce: awkh
Origin: a primitive word
shall praise
yadah (Hebrew #3034)
used only as denominative from 3027; literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands)
KJV usage: cast (out), (make) confess(-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank(-ful, -s, -sgiving).
Pronounce: yaw-daw'
Origin: a primitive root
: thy hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
shall be in the neck
`oreph (Hebrew #6203)
the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
KJV usage: back ((stiff-)neck((-ed).
Pronounce: o-ref'
Origin: from 6202
of thine enemies
'oyeb (Hebrew #341)
active participle of 340; hating; an adversary
KJV usage: enemy, foe.
Pronounce: o-yabe'
Origin: or (fully) owyeb {o-yabe'}
; thy father’s
'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
children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
shall bow down
shachah (Hebrew #7812)
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
KJV usage: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
Pronounce: shaw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
y before thee.

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shall praise.
Gen. 29:35• 35And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear. (Gen. 29:35)
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Gen. 44:18‑34• 18Then Judah came near to him, and said, Ah! my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.
19My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
20And we said to my lord, We have an aged father, and a child born to him in his old age, yet young; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.
21And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set mine eye on him.
22And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, his father would die.
23And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
24And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
26But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.
27And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;
28and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him again hitherto.
29And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.
30And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us,--seeing that his life is bound up with his life,
31it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
32For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty toward my father all my days.
33And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;
34for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me?--lest I see the evil that would come on my father.
(Gen. 44:18‑34)
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Gen. 46:12• 12--And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pherez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul. (Gen. 46:12)
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Deut. 33:7• 7And this of Judah; and he said, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him unto his people; May his hands strive for them; And be thou a help to him against his oppressors. (Deut. 33:7)
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1 Chron. 5:2• 2for Judah prevailed among his brethren, and of him was the prince, but the birthright was Joseph's), (1 Chron. 5:2)
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Psa. 76:1• 1To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph: a Song. In Judah is God known, his name is great in Israel; (Psa. 76:1)
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Heb. 7:14• 14For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests. (Heb. 7:14)
thy hand.
Num. 1:27• 27those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. (Num. 1:27)
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Num. 10:14• 14The standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward first according to their hosts, and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab; (Num. 10:14)
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Num. 26:22• 22These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. (Num. 26:22)
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Judg. 1:1‑2• 1And it came to pass after the death of Joshua that the children of Israel asked Jehovah, saying, Which of us shall go up against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
2And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
(Judg. 1:1‑2)
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Judg. 20:18• 18And the children of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah first. (Judg. 20:18)
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2 Sam. 24:9• 9And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king; and there were of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. (2 Sam. 24:9)
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1 Kings 4:1‑34• 1And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
2And these are the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok was priest;
3Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, chronicler;
4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
5and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the superintendents; and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, the king's friend;
6and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy-service.
7And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel; and they provided food for the king and his household: each man his month in the year had to make provision.
8And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.
9Ben-Deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan.
10Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; he had Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher.
11Ben-Abinadab had all the upland of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife.
12Baana the son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zaretan beneath Jizreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, as far as beyond Jokneam.
13Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead; he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bars of bronze.
14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, at Mahanaim.
15Ahimaaz, in Nephtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon as wife.
16Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth.
17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar.
18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin.
19Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, and of Og the king of Bashan; and he was the only superintendent that was in the land.
20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
21And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
22And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
23ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.
24For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about.
25And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
26And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
27And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they let nothing be wanting.
28And the barley, and the straw for the horses and coursers, they brought to the place where the superintendents were, every man according to his charge.
29And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
30And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
31For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
32And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
33And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
34And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
(1 Kings 4:1‑34)
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1 Chron. 12:1‑40• 1Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he kept still close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in the conflict;
2armed with bows, using both the right hand and the left with stones and with arrows on the bow; they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin:
3the chief Ahiezer, and Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Anathothite,
4and Jishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite.
5Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;
6Elkanah, and Jishijah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
7and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
8And of the Gadites, there separated themselves to David in the stronghold in the wilderness mighty men of valour, men fit for the service of war, armed with shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as the gazelles upon the mountains:
9Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
10Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
11Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
12Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
13Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
14These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
15These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it overflows all its banks, and they put to flight all them of the valleys, toward the east and toward the west.
16And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.
17And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, If ye come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit unto you; but if to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers see it and rebuke it.
18And the Spirit came upon Amasai, the chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, And with thee, thou son of Jesse: Peace, peace be to thee! And peace be to thy helpers! For thy God helps thee. And David received them, and made them chiefs of bands.
19And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not; for the lords of the Philistines upon deliberation sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul at the peril of our heads.
20As he went away to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh: Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
21And they helped David in his expeditions; for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
22For day by day there came men to David to help him, until it was a great camp, like the camp of God.
23And this is the number of the men equipped for military service, who came to David to Hebron, to transfer the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Jehovah.
24The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, equipped for military service.
25Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for war, seven thousand one hundred.
26Of the children of Levi four thousand six hundred.
27And Jehoiada the prince of Aaron, and with him were three thousand seven hundred;
28and Zadok, a valiant young man, and his father's house two and twenty chief men.
29And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand; but hitherto the greater part of them had adhered to the house of Saul.
30And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valour, men of name in their fathers' houses.
31And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
32And of the children of Issachar, who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their bidding.
33Of Zebulun, such as went forth in the host, armed for war with all weapons of war, fifty thousand, keeping rank without double heart.
34And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear.
35And of the Danites armed for war twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
36And of Asher such as went forth in the host, to set themselves in battle array, forty thousand.
37And from the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of weapons of war for battle, a hundred and twenty thousand.
38All of them men of war, keeping rank in battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
39And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had prepared for them;
40and those too that were near them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen; provisions of meal, fig-cakes and raisin-cakes, and wine and oil, and oxen and sheep, abundantly; for there was joy in Israel.
(1 Chron. 12:1‑40)
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2 Chron. 11:12‑17• 12and in every several city, targets and spears, and made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.
13And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their districts;
14for the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from exercising the priesthood to Jehovah;
15and he ordained for himself priests for the high places, and for the he-goats and for the calves that he had made.
16--And after them, those out of all the tribes of Israel that set their heart to seek Jehovah the God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to Jehovah the God of their fathers.
17And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong three years; for during three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
(2 Chron. 11:12‑17)
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2 Chron. 14:8• 8And Asa had an army that bore targets and spears: out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew the bow, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these, mighty men of valour. (2 Chron. 14:8)
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2 Chron. 15:9• 9And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon; for they fell away to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him. (2 Chron. 15:9)
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2 Chron. 17:2,14‑16• 2And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had taken.
14And these are the numbers of them according to their fathers' houses. Of Judah the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valour;
15and next to him was Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;
16and next to him, Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Jehovah; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.
(2 Chron. 17:2,14‑16)
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2 Chron. 30:11• 11Nevertheless certain of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 30:11)
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Psa. 18:40‑43• 40And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
41They cried, and there was none to save;--unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.
42And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me.
(Psa. 18:40‑43)
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Psa. 78:68‑71• 68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
70And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
(Psa. 78:68‑71)
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Isa. 9:7• 7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this. (Isa. 9:7)
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Heb. 7:14• 14For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests. (Heb. 7:14)
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Heb. 10:13• 13waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set for the footstool of his feet. (Heb. 10:13)
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Rev. 5:5• 5And one of the elders says to me, Do not weep. Behold, the lion which is of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, has overcome so as to open the book, and its seven seals. (Rev. 5:5)
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Rev. 11:15• 15And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet: and there were great voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world of our Lord and of his Christ is come, and he shall reign to the ages of ages. (Rev. 11:15)
the neck.
thy father's.
 Next, the purpose of God in Judah: he remains till Shiloh come, to whom the gathering of the peoples belongs. But He was rejected when He came to Judah, and there was no gathering: “beauty” and “bands” were broken. (Genesis 48-50 by J.N. Darby)
 Then Judah, God’s purpose in His people, in connection with the royal stock and Shiloh. This is plain enough. To Him the gathering of the peoples was to be. (Genesis 48-50 by J.N. Darby)
 Past History of the Nation. Judah.-Royalty and majesty established in Christ. (Prophetic Blessings of Jacob and Moses: Genesis 49, Deuteronomy 33 by W. Scott)

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Judah—as to thee, thy brethren will praise theee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s children will bow down to thee.

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Paronomasia, yehudah yoduca; Judah and praise. see ch. 29.35.