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Genesis 50

Gen. 50:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Joseph
Yowceph (Hebrew #3130)
let him add (or perhaps simply active participle adding); Joseph, the name of seven Israelites
KJV usage: Joseph. Compare 3084.
Pronounce: yo-safe'
Origin: future of 3254
commanded
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
his servants
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
the physicians
rapha' (Hebrew #7495)
a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
KJV usage: cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole. See 7503.
Pronounce: raw-faw'
Origin: or raphah {raw-faw'}
toe embalm
chanat (Hebrew #2590)
to spice; by implication, to embalm; also to ripen
KJV usage: embalm, put forth.
Pronounce: khaw-nat'
Origin: a primitive root
his father
'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
: and the physicians
rapha' (Hebrew #7495)
a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
KJV usage: cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole. See 7503.
Pronounce: raw-faw'
Origin: or raphah {raw-faw'}
embalmed
chanat (Hebrew #2590)
to spice; by implication, to embalm; also to ripen
KJV usage: embalm, put forth.
Pronounce: khaw-nat'
Origin: a primitive root
Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Gen. 50:26• 26And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Gen. 50:26)
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2 Chron. 16:14• 14And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him. (2 Chron. 16:14)
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Matt. 26:12• 12For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying. (Matt. 26:12)
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Mark 14:8• 8What *she* could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial. (Mark 14:8)
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Mark 16:1• 1And the sabbath being now past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him. (Mark 16:1)
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John 12:7• 7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial; (John 12:7)

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Embalming,
Father,
Israel,
Joseph,
Physician,
Servant

Cross References

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the physicians.The Hebrew {ropheim,} from {rapha,} to heal, is literally the healers, those whose business it was to heal, or restore the body from sickness, by administering proper medicines; and when death took place, to heal or preserve it from decomposition by embalming.
The word {chanat,} to embalm, is also used in Arabic to express the reddening of leather; somewhat analogous to our tanning; which is probably the grand principal in embalming.embalmed.
Gen. 50:26• 26And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Gen. 50:26)
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2 Chron. 16:14• 14And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him. (2 Chron. 16:14)
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Matt. 26:12• 12For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying. (Matt. 26:12)
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Mark 14:8• 8What *she* could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial. (Mark 14:8)
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Mark 16:1• 1And the sabbath being now past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him. (Mark 16:1)
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Luke 24:1• 1But on the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices which they had prepared. (Luke 24:1)
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John 12:7• 7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial; (John 12:7)
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John 19:39‑40• 39And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night, came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
 40They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices, as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial. (John 19:39‑40)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.