Genesis 41:29

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
come	בָּא֑וֹת ba.'ot	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal active participle, feminine plural absolute
seven	שֶׁ֥בַע She.va'	H7651	seven (as the sacred full one) · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
years	שָׁנִ֖ים sha.Nim	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
great	גָּד֖וֹל ga.Dol	H1419	great (in any sense) · adjective, masculine singular absolute
plenty	שָׂבָ֥ע sa.Va'	H7647	copiousness · noun, common masculine singular absolute
land	אֶ֥רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular construct
Egypt	מִצְרָֽיִם mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · proper noun, a place name

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Cross-references

Genesis 41:46-47 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throu…
Genesis 41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Genesis 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:17-32

Here, I. Pharaoh relates his dream. He dreamt that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones and the lean ones, come out of the river. For the kingdom of Egypt had no rain, as appears, Zac 14:18, but the plenty of the year depended upon the overflowing of the river, and it was about one certain time of the year that it overflowed. If it rose to fifteen or sixteen cubits, there was plenty; if to twelve or thirteen only, or under, there was scarcity. See how many ways Providence has of dispensing its gifts; yet, whatever the second causes are, our dependence is still the same upon the first Cause, who makes every creature that to us that it is, be it rain or…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 41:25

JOSEPH INTERPRETS PHARAOH'S DREAMS. (Gen 41:25-36) Joseph said, . . . The dream . . . is one--They both pointed to the same event--a remarkable dispensation of seven years of unexampled abundance, to be followed by a similar period of unparalleled dearth. The repetition of the dream in two different forms was designed to show the absolute certainty and speedy arrival of this public crisis; the interpretation was accompanied by several suggestions of practical wisdom for meeting so great an emergency as was impending.

Adam Clarke on Genesis 41:25

God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do - Joseph thus shows the Egyptian king that though the ordinary cause of plenty or want is the river Nile, yet its inundations are under the direction of God: the dreams are sent by him, not only to signify beforehand the plenty and want, but to show also that all these circumstances, however fortuitous they may appear to man, are under the direction of an overruling Providence.

John Gill on Genesis 41:29

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.

The Church Fathers

(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.
— Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis

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Dictionary and topics

Divination — Of false prophets (Deut. 18:10, 14; Micah 3:6, 7, 11), of necromancers (1 Sam. 28:8), of the Philistine priests and diviners (1 Sam. 6:2), of Balaam (Josh. 13:22). Three kinds of divination are…
Famine — The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to…
Kine — (Heb. sing. parah, i.e., “fruitful”), mentioned in Pharaoh’s dream (Gen. 41: 18). Here the word denotes “buffaloes,” which fed on the reeds and sedge by the river’s brink.
Pharaoh — The official title borne by the Egyptian kings down to the time when that country was conquered by the Greeks. (See EGYPT.) The name is a compound, as some think, of the words Ra, the “sun” or…
Egypt · History of Israel in: Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams — History of Israel in: Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams
Government · Paternal functions of — Paternal functions of
Joseph · .Of Pharaoh — .Of Pharaoh
Kine (Bovine) · Pharaoh’s dream of — Pharaoh’s dream of
Ox, The · Kine illustrative: (well favoured,) of years of plenty — Kine illustrative: (well favoured,) of years of plenty
Prisoners · Joseph — Joseph
Promotion · .Joseph, from impri — .Joseph, from impri
Wisdom · Of Joseph — Of Joseph

Genesis 41:29

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:17-32

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 41:25

Adam Clarke on Genesis 41:25

John Gill on Genesis 41:29

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 41:29

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:17-32

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 41:25

Adam Clarke on Genesis 41:25

John Gill on Genesis 41:29

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Genesis 41:17-31

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 41:14-36

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 41:25-32