“The God speaks and he [the speaker Joseph] lives”
Egyptian name give by Poti-Pherah, priest and father of Joseph’s wife Asenath (Gen 41:45)
Family
Born of
Father: Jacob/Israel (Gen 30:1-26; Mt 1:2)
Mother: Rachel (Gen 30:22-24)
Siblings
Reuben, son of Leah (Gen 29:32)
Simeon, son of Leah (Gen 29:33)
Levi, son of Leah (Gen 29:34)
Judah, son of Leah (Gen 29: 35)
Dan, son of Rachel’s servant Bilhah (Gen 30:3-6)
Naphtali, son of Rachel’s servant Bilhah (Gen 30:7-8)
Gad, son of Leah’s servant Zilpah (Gen 30:9-11)
Asher, son of Leah’s servant Zilpah (Gen 30:12-13)
Issachar, son of Leah (Gen 30:17-18)
Zebulun, son of Leah (Gen 30:19-20)
Dinah, daughter of Leah (Gen 30:21)
Benjamin, son of Rachel (Gen 35:18, 24)
Spouse
Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On (Gen 41:45, 50)
Children
Manasseh (Gen 41:50-51)
Ephraim (Gen 41:50-52)
Career
At the age of seventeen, Joseph tends his father’s flocks in Canaan (Gen 37:2)
Joseph serves as a servant and later becomes an overseer in Potiphar’s household (Gen 39:1-23)
While a prisoner himself in Egypt, Joseph is put in charge of the prisoners (Gen 39:21-23)
Pharaoh sets Joseph over all of Egypt so that only Pharaoh is greater than him (Gen 41:37-45)
Events
The life of Joseph (Gen 30:22-50:26)
Joseph in Jacob’s household (Gen 29:31-35:15)
<topic id=”582” startswith=”The Lord sees that Leah was hated so He opens her womb” nth=”1”>The Lord sees that Leah was hated so He opens her womb. She bears sons. (Gen 29:31-35)</topic>
<topic id=”582” startswith=”Jacob and Esau reunite” nth=”1”>Jacob and Esau reunite (Gen 32:1-34:31)</topic>
<topic id=”582” startswith=”God blesses Jacob and renames him Israel” nth=”1”>God blesses Jacob and renames him Israel (Gen 35:1-15)</topic>
<topic id=”582” startswith=”Jacob and his family settles in Canaan” nth=”1”>Jacob and his family settles in Canaan (Gen 37:1)</topic>
Joseph is loved by his father, which makes Joseph’s brothers jealous (Gen 37:1-11)
At age seventeen, Joseph pastures the flock with his brothers and brings a bad report of his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, to his father (Gen 37:2)
Israel loves Joseph more than any of his other sons because he is the son of Israel’s old age. Israel makes Joseph a robe of many colors (Gen 37:3)
Joseph’s brothers hate him and cannot speak peacefully to him (Gen 37:4)
Joseph dreams that his brothers and father bow down to him (Gen 37:5-11)
Joseph dreams that in the field, his sheaf in the field stands upright and his brother’s sheaves bow to Joseph’s sheaf. Joseph’s brothers are displeased and hate Joseph because of the dream and Joseph’s words (Gen 37:5-8)
Joseph dreams a second dream that the sun, moon, and eleven stars bow to Joseph. Joseph tells his father and brothers, but Israel rebukes Joseph. Joseph’s brothers are jealous, but Israel keeps the saying in mind (Gen 37:9-11)
Joseph is sold by his brothers (Gen 37:12-36)
Israel tells Joseph to see if Joseph’s brothers are well with the flock near Shechem and to bring news back to Israel (Gen 37:12-14)
Joseph travels from the Valley of Hebron to Shechem and looks for his brothers. A man directs him to finds them at Dothan (Gen 37:15-17)
Joseph’s brothers plot to kill Joseph, throw him into a pit, and lie that a fierce animal has devoured him. However, Reuben convinces them to simply throw him into a pit. Reuben plans to rescue Joseph and restore him to Israel (Gen 37:18-22)
Joseph’s brothers take away his robe of many colors and throw him into a pit with no water (Gen 37:23-24)
Joseph’s brothers sit down to eat and see an Ishmaelite caravan on the way to Egypt. Judah convinces his brothers to sell Joseph for twenty shekels of silver. (Gen 37:25-27)
The Midianite traders pass by. Joseph is taken out of the pit and sold to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. The Ishmaelites take Joseph to Egypt (Gen 37:28)
Reuben tears his clothes when he discovers that Joseph is not in the pit. He returns to his brothers and asks them where he should go. The brothers dip Joseph’s robe in the blood of a slaughtered goat and send the robe to their father to be identified (Gen 37:29-32)
Jacob identifies the robe as Joseph’s and assumes that he has been killed by a fierce animal. Jacob mourns for Joseph and refuses to be comforted (Gen 37:33-35)
The Midianites sell Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar (Gen 37:36)
Judah and Tamar (Gen 38:1-30)
Joseph in Egypt (Gen 39:1-41:58)
Joseph as a servant in Potiphar’s house (Gen 39:1-23)
After the Ishmaelites bring Joseph to Egypt, Potiphar buys Joseph (Gen 39:1)
Joseph succeeds at serving Potiphar because the Lord is with Joseph and causes all that Joseph does to succeed (Gen 39:2-3)
Potiphar notices Joseph’s success and makes Joseph overseer in Potiphar’s house and in all that he has, which is blessed for Joseph’s sake (Gen 39:4-5)
Potiphar’s wife tries to lure Joseph (Gen 39:5-23)
After Joseph is overseer of Potiphar’s house and lands, Potiphar’s wife tries to lure Joseph into sexual immorality but Joseph refuses because he cannot do this great wickedness and sin against God (Gen 39:6-9)
Potiphar’s wife speaks to Joseph day after day, but Joseph refuses to comply (Gen 39:10)
One day, Potiphar’s wife catches Joseph’s garment while he is doing his work in the house and tells him to lie with her. Joseph leaves his garment and flees from the house (Gen 39:11-12)
Potiphar’s wife calls the men of her household and accuses Joseph of attacking her and leaving his garment when fleeing because she cries out in a loud voice (Gen 39:13-15)
Potiphar’s wife keeps the garment with her until Potiphar returns home and tells the same story to him (Gen 39:16-18)
Potiphar becomes angry after his wife accuses Joseph. Potiphar imprisons Joseph in the king’s prison (Gen 39:19-20)
Joseph interprets two prisoners’ dreams while in prison (Gen 39:20-40:23)
The Lord is with Joseph, shows him steadfast love, and gives him favor in the sight of the prison keeper, who puts Joseph in charge of the prisoners. Joseph is successful while in charge of the prisoners and the prison keeper does not pay attention to anything in Joseph’s charge (Gen 39:21-23)
The cupbearer and baker of the king of Egypt are imprisoned and Joseph is appointed to attend to them while they are in custody for some time (Gen 40:1-4)
One night, the cupbearer and baker each dream their own dreams and are troubled the next morning. Joseph asks why they look troubled and they reply that they do not have anyone to interpret their dreams. Joseph asks them to tell him the dreams (Gen 40:5-8)
The chief cupbearer’s dream and interpretation (Gen 40:9-15)
The chief cupbearer sees a vine with three branches that bud, blossom, and produce ripe grapes. The cupbearer presses the grapes into Pharaoh’s cup and places the cup in Pharaoh’s hand (Gen 40:9-11)
Joseph interprets the dream and tells the cupbearer that in three days, Pharoah will restores the cupbearer’s position (Gen 40:12-13)
Joseph tells the cupbearer to mention Joseph to Pharaoh so that Joseph can be freed from prison because Joseph is falsely imprisoned (Gen 40:14-15)
The chief baker’s dream and interpretation (Gen 40:16-19)
The chief baker sees three cake baskets on his head. The top basket has baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds eat out of that basket (Gen 40:16-17)
Joseph interprets the dream and tells the baker that in three days, Pharaoh will hang the baker and the birds will eat the baker’s flesh (Gen 40:18-19)
The third day after Joseph interprets the dreams is Pharaoh’s birthday; he makes a feast for all of his servants. He lifts up the heads of the chief cupbearer and chief baker. He restores the cupbearer’s position but hangs the baker (Gen 40:20-22)
The chief cupbearer forgets about Joseph (Gen 40:23)
Pharaoh dreams dreams that only Joseph can interpret (Gen 41:1-36)
Two years later, Pharaoh dreams two dreams. Nobody can interpret them, although he asks all the magicians and wise men of Egypt (Gen 41:1-8)
Pharaoh dreams that seven thin, ugly cows come out of the Nile river after seven attractive, plump cows. The thin cows eat the plump cows (Gen 41:1-4)
Pharaoh wakes up, falls back asleep, and dreams a second dream (Gen 41:5)
Pharaoh dreams that seven thin ears of grain, blighted by the east wind, sprout after seven good and plump ears of grain are growing on one stalk. The seven thin ears swallow up the seven plump, full ears (Gen 41:5-8)
Pharaoh is troubled when he wakes up in the morning and calls for all of the magicians and wise men in Egypt, but nobody can interpret his dreams (Gen 41:8)
The chief cupbearer tells Pharaoh about Joseph, who had correctly interpreted his and the chief baker’s dreams (Gen 41:9-13)
Pharaoh calls for Joseph, who changes his clothes and shaves before appearing before Pharaoh. When Pharaoh asks Joseph about his ability to interpret dreams, Joseph tells him that it is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer (Gen 41:14-16)
Pharaoh tells Joseph his dreams and how nobody could explain them to him (Gen 41:17-24)
Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams (Gen 41:25-36)
The seven good cows and seven good ears represent seven good years; the seven lean cows and seven empty ears represent seven years of severe famine in Egypt (Gen 41:25-31)
The doubling of the dreams means that the events are fixed by God and that He will shortly bring it about (Gen 41:32)
Joseph tells Pharaoh to set a discerning and wise man over Egypt and to select overseers to take one-fifth of the land’s produce during the good years as a reserve during the seven years of famine (Gen 41:33-36)
Joseph rises to power before Pharaoh (Gen 41:33-57)
Joseph tells Pharaoh to set a discerning and wise man over Egypt and to select overseers to take one-fifth of the land’s produce during the good years as a reserve during the seven years of famine (Gen 41:33-36)
Pharaoh is pleased by Joseph’s proposal, so he sets Joseph over all of Egypt so that only Pharaoh is greater than him (Gen 41:37-45)
Pharaoh renames Joseph to Zaphenath-paneah, gives Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On, to Joseph as a wife. He is thirty years old at this time (Gen 41:45-46)
Joseph goes out to all of Egypt during the seven plentiful years and gathers up food in great abundance until he stops measuring it because it cannot be measured (Gen 41:46-49)
Asenath bears two sons to Joseph before the famine (Gen 41:50-52)
Manasseh: “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house”
Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction”
When all the lands experience the seven years of famine, Egypt has bread. Pharaoh directs the famished people to Joseph to buy grain (Gen 41:53-57)
Joseph’s brothers go to Egypt and meet Joseph twice without knowing his true identity (Gen 42:1-45:28)
Joseph’s brothers go to Egypt for food during the famine and meet Joseph (Gen 42:1-24)
Jacob tells all of his sons, except for Benjamin, to go buy grain from Egypt because the famine is severe over all the earth (Gen 41:57-42:5)
All of Joseph’s brothers, except for Benjamin, go to Joseph in Egypt to buy food because Joseph is the one who sells food to all the people of the land. Joseph recognizes them but they do not recognize Joseph (Gen 42:6-8)
Joseph accuses his brothers of being spies and puts them into custody for three days (Gen 42:9-17)
Joseph tells his brothers to go back to bring their youngest brother as a test of their words. He binds up Simeon and gives orders to fill their sacks with provisions, refill their money bags, and to load their donkeys with grain (Gen 42:18-25)
On the way back to Canaan, Joseph’s brothers discover that their money bags are been refilled and tremble with fear (Gen 42:26-28)
Joseph’s brothers recount what happened in Egypt to Jacob, who is grieved. They discover that all of their sacks contain money and become afraid, but Jacob refuses to send Benjamin to Egypt. Reuben tries to offer his own two son’s lives for the opportunity to bring Benjamin to and back from Egypt, but Jacob refuses (Gen 42:29-38)
Joseph’s brothers return to Egypt with Benjamin (Gen 43:1-34)
After Israel’s family finishes eating the food from Egypt, Jacob tells his sons to go back down to Egypt to buy food (Gen 43:1-2)
Judah reminds Israel about Joseph’s words of bringing Benjamin to Egypt (Gen 43:3-5)
Israel questions why his sons treat him so badly in revealing to Pharaoh that Israel has another son (Gen 43:6)
Israel’s sons defend themselves and try to convince Israel to allow them to go back to Egypt with Benjamin (Gen 43:7-10)
Israel concedes and tells his sons to bring presents, double the money, and Benjamin. Israel hopes that God grants them mercy before Joseph and sends back Simeon and Benjamin, but is resigned to bereavement (Gen 43:11-14)
Joseph’s brothers return to Egypt with Benjamin (Gen 43:15)
When Joseph sees his brothers and Benjamin, he commands his steward to receive them and to slaughter an animal for a noon meal (Gen 43:16-17)
Joseph’s brothers fear that they will be punished for the replaced money, but Joseph’s steward reassures them that their money was received. He tells them that their God had put the treasure in their sacks (Gen 43:18-23)
Joseph’s steward brings out Simeon to the brothers, gives them water to wash their feet, and prepares fodder for their donkeys (Gen 43:23-25)
Joseph eats with his brothers (Gen 43:25-34)
Joseph’s brother prepare Joseph’s present and give it to Joseph at noon, bowing down to him to the ground (Gen 43:25-26)
Joseph inquires about their and their father’s welfare. The brothers bow down. Then Joseph sees Benjamin and hurries out to his chamber to weep (Gen 43:27-30)
Joseph washes his face after weeping and comes back out (Gen 43:31)
Joseph commands his servants to serve his brothers food. Joseph is served separately from his brothers because it is an abomination to the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews. The brothers sit according to their birthright and are amazed. They are subsequently served from Joseph’s table. Benjamin receives five times as much as the rest of his brothers; they all eat and are merry with Joseph (Gen 43:31-34)
Joseph tests his brothers with his silver cup (Gen 44:1-34)
Joseph commands the steward of the house to fill his brothers’ sacks with food and money, and to put Joseph’s silver cup in Benjamin’s sack (Gen 44:1-2)
Joseph’s brothers are sent away at dawn (Gen 44:3)
Joseph commands his steward to follow and overtake them, then to accuse his brothers of stealing from Joseph (Gen 44:3-6)
Joseph’s brothers protest and vow that whoever is found guilty will die and they will all become Joseph’s servants (Gen 44:7-9)
Joseph’s steward agrees with their vow and searches their bags. He finds the silver cup in Benjamin’s bag (Gen 44:10-12)
The brothers tear their clothes, load up their donkeys, and return to Egypt (Gen 44:13)
Joseph asks his brothers what they have done and Judah speaks for the brothers. Joseph tells his brothers that only the man in whose hand the cup is found shall be Joseph’s servant. Joseph tells his brothers to go back to their father in peace (Gen 44:16-17)
Judah recounts what has happened with their Israel’s grief over Joseph and how Israel will die if he also loses Benjamin (Gen 44:18-34)
Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers (Gen 45:1-28)
Overcome with emotion, Joseph commands everyone to leave, except his brothers. He weeps so loudly that the Egyptians and the household of Pharaoh hear it (Gen 45:1-2)
Joseph reveals himself to his brothers and asks whether Israel is still alive, but the brothers cannot answer because they are dismayed at his presence (Gen 45:3)
Joseph tells his brothers to come near. They obey (Gen 45:4)
Joseph tells his brothers not to be distressed or angry with themselves, but that it is God’s plan to preserve their family (Gen 45:6-8)
Joseph tells his brothers to tell Israel about Joseph’s honor in Egypt and to bring Israel to Egypt so that Joseph can provide for their family during the famine (Gen 45:9-13)
Joseph falls upon Benjamin’s neck and weeps, and Benjamin also weeps. Joseph kisses all of his brothers and weeps on them. They all talk with Joseph (Gen 45:14-15)
Pharaoh is pleased that Joseph’s brothers have come and tells Joseph to tell his brothers to take provisions back to Canaan, then to bring Israel and his household back to Egypt. Pharaoh promises the best of the land of Egypt to Joseph’s family and that they shall eat the fat of the land. Pharaoh even tells Joseph to send wagons from Egypt to bring the little ones and their wives, and their father Israel. He tells Joseph to tell his family, “Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.” (Gen 45:16-20)
Israel’s sons do as Pharaoh says. Joseph provides wagons and provisions for them, as well as a change of clothes. He gives Benjamin extra money and five changes of clothes. Joseph sends ample provisions to his father for the journey to Egypt as well as “the good things of Egypt.” (23) Joseph sends his brothers on their way and tells them not to quarrel on the way (Gen 45:21-24)
Joseph’s brothers arrive in Canaan and tell their father what had happened. At first, Israel does not believe them, but after seeing the wagons, Israel’s spirit revives (Gen 45:25-28)
Israel goes to Egypt and settles in Goshen (Gen 46:1-47:31)
Israel goes to Egypt (Gen 46:1-7)
Israel takes all that he has and comes to Beersheeba
Israel makes sacrifices to God, who speaks to Israel in visions of the night and tells Israel
Not to be afraid of going to Egypt because He will make Jacob into a great nation
God Himself will go to Egypt with Jacob
God will bring Jacob up again and Joseph’s hand will close Jacob’s eyes
Jacob sets out from Beersheba in the wagons with the little ones and the wives of Jacob’s sons. They bring their livestock and goods from Canaan as well as Jacob’s entire family (Gen 46:5-7)
An account of the sixty-six descendants of Israel who go to Egypt (Gen 46:8-27)
The son’s wives are not included in the sixty-six
Joseph has two sons who are born in Egypt
The total number of people from the house of Jacob who come into Egypt is seventy
Israel arrives and settles in Goshen (Gen 46:28-47:12)
Israel sends Judah ahead to show the way to Goshen (Gen 46:28)
Joseph rides his chariot to meet his father in Goshen and falls on Israel’s neck and weeps on him for a good while. Israel is now ready to die because he has seen Joseph’s face and knows that he is alive (Gen 46:29-30)
Joseph instructs his brothers and father’s household to say that they are shepherds so that they can stay in Goshen, since shepherds are abominations to the Egyptians (Gen 46:31-34)
Joseph tells Pharaoh that his family has come from Canaan and is in Goshen. Joseph presents five of his brothers to Pharaoh. When Pharaoh asks what their occupation is, they say they are shepherds, as their fathers were. They ask to stay in Goshen and Pharaoh allows it, telling Joseph to put any able men from his family in charge of Pharaoh’s livestock (Gen 47:1-6)
Joseph brings Jacob before Pharaoh and Jacob blesses Pharaoh. Pharaoh asks how old Jacob is and Jacob responds that his years of sojourning are 130 years and that his years have not attained the lives of his fathers when they sojourned. Jacob blesses Pharaoh and goes out from the presence of Pharaoh (Gen 47:7-10)
Joseph settles his father and brothers and gives them a possession of the land of Ramses, the best of the land. He provides them with food (Gen 47:11-12)
Joseph and the famine (Gen 47:13-31)
The food runs out in Egypt and Canaan because of the famine. The people buy grain from Joseph until all the money is gone from Egypt and Canaan (Gen 47:13-15)
The Egyptians trade their livestock until their horses, flocks, herds, and donkeys are all gone, too (Gen 47:16-18)
When the Egyptians have nothing left except for themselves, they sell themselves as slaves and their land in exchange for food and seeds to plant (Gen 47:19-21)
The priests have a fixed allowance from Pharaoh so they do not need to sell their land (Gen 47:22)
Joseph gives seeds to the people and tells them to plant. They are to keep two-fifths for themselves and to give one-fifth to Pharaoh (Gen 47:23-26)
Israel settles in Goshen in Egypt for seventeen years and gains possessions, is fruitful, and multiplies greatly. Jacob lives for 147 years total. Jacob makes Joseph swear that he will bury Jacob in his fathers’ burying place. (Gen 47:27-31)
Israel blesses his descendants (Gen 48:1-49:28)
Israel blesses Joseph’s sons (Gen 48:1-22)
Joseph brings his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, to an ailing Israel. Israel tells Joseph that Joseph’s two sons will be included in Israel’s blessings and also grow into a multitude. Israel tells Joseph that any other son of Joseph after these two will be Joseph’s own sons (Gen 48:1-7)
Israel blesses Joseph’s sons by crossing his hands so that his right hand is on Ephraim, the younger son, and his left hand on Manasseh, the older son. Israel reiterates that he never expected to see Joseph again, let alone Joseph’s offspring (Gen 48:8-16)
Joseph is displeased that his father blesses the younger son over the older son and tries to move Israel’s hands, but Israel refuses and blesses Ephraim to be greater than Manasseh (Gen 48:17-20)
Israel tells Joseph that God will be with Joseph and will bring him back to the land of his fathers. He gives the Amorite mountain slope to Joseph instead of to his brothers (Gen 48:21-22)
Jacob blesses his sons (Gen 49:1-28)
Jacob calls his sons together to listen to his blessings and what will happen in the days to come (Gen 49:1-2)
Reuben (Gen 49:3-4)
Reuben is Jacob’s firstborn, his might, the firstfruit of Jacob’s strength, and is preeminent in dignity and power (Gen 49:3)
However, because Reuben is unstable as water, he shall not have preeminence; this is because he had defiled his father’s bed (Gen 49:4)
Simeon and Levi (Gen 49:5-7)
Simeon and Levi are brothers and are violent (Gen 49:5)
Jacob does not want his soul to come into their council because they acted in anger (Gen 49:6)
Jacob curses their anger. He divides and scatters them in Israel (Gen 49:7)
Judah (Gen 49:8-12)
Judah’s brothers will praise him and bow down before him (Gen 49:8)
Judah’s hands will be on the neck of his enemies (Gen 49:8)
Judah is compared to a lion’s cub and nobody dares to rouse him (Gen 49:9)
Judah will rule and the people will obey him (Gen 49:10)
Judah binds his foal to the vine and donkey’s colt to the choice vine. He washes his garments in the wine and vesture in the blood of grapes (Gen 49:11)
Judah’s eyes are darker than wine and his teeth whiter than milk (Gen 49:12)
Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea, become a haven for ships, and border Sidon (Gen 49:13)
Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between sheepfolds. He sees that a resting place is good and the land is pleasant, so he becomes a servant at forced labor (Gen 49:14-15)
Dan (Gen 49:16-18)
Shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel (Gen 49:16)
Shall be a serpent in the way that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward
Jacob will wait for God’s salvation (Gen 49:18)
Gad shall be raided and will raid (Gen 49:19)
Asher’s food shall be rich and he shall yield royal delicacies (Gen 49:20)
Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns (Gen 49:21)
Joseph (Gen 49:22-26)
Joseph is a fruitful bough by a spring whose branches run over the wall (Gen 49:22)
The archers bitterly attack Joseph but his bow remains unmoved because God makes his arms agile (Gen 49:23-24)
God will help and bless Joseph mightily beyond the blessings of Jacob’s parents. This sets Joseph apart from his brothers (Gen 49:25-26)
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring the prey in the morning and dividing the spoil at night (Gen 49:27)
Israel blesses each of his sons with the blessing suitable to him (Gen 49:28)
Jacob dies, is embalmed in Egypt, and is buried in the cave of the field at Machpelah (Gen 49:29-50:21)
Jacob dies (Gen 40:29-33)
Israel commands his sons to bury Jacob with his fathers in the cave that Abraham bought to bury Sarah and where Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah are also buried (Gen 49:29-32)
After Jacob gives specific instructions about his burial, he draws his feet up into the bed and breathes his last. He is gathered to his people (Gen 49:33)
Joseph falls on his father’s face, weeps over him, and kisses him (Gen 50:1)
Joseph commands his physicians to embalm his father, which takes forty days. The Egyptians weep for Israel for seventy days (Gen 50:2-3)
Israel’s burial in Canaan (Gen 50:4-14)
Joseph asks Pharaoh for permission to bury Israel in Canaan. Pharaoh allows it (Gen 50:4-6)
Joseph goes to bury his father. He is accompanied by the servants of Pharaoh, elders of his household, elders of the land of Egypt, the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household, a very great company (Gen 50:7-9)
Joseph and the great company of people lament greatly at the threshing floor of Atad, beyond the Jordan. The Canaanites see the mourning as a grievous mourning by the Egyptians, and it is named Abel-mizraim (Gen 50:10-11)
Joseph and his brothers bury Israel in the cave of the field at Machpelah, as Israel commanded (Gen 50:12-13)
Joseph and the great company of people return to Egypt (Gen 50:14)
Joseph’s brothers ask Joseph for forgiveness; Joseph comforts and speaks kindly to them (Gen 50:15-21)
Joseph dies at age 110, is embalmed, and put in in a coffin in Egypt (Gen 50:22-26)
Comments about Joseph
Son of Israel’s old age (Gen 37:3)
Is loved by Israel more than all his children (Gen 37:3)
Gen 37:6 – He said to them, "Hear this dream that I have dreamed:
Gen 37:9 – Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Gen 37:13 – And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Gen 39:8 – But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Gen 40:7 – So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"
Gen 40:8 – They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."
Gen 40:12 – Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
Gen 41:25 – Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Gen 41:54 – and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Gen 41:55 – When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
Gen 42:7 – Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
Gen 42:9 – And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
Gen 42:12 – He said to them, "No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see."
Gen 42:14 – But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you. You are spies.
Gen 42:18 – On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
Gen 42:33 – Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
Gen 43:3 – But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
Gen 43:5 – But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
Gen 43:7 – They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"
Gen 43:16 – When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."
Gen 43:17 – The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph's house.
Gen 43:27 – And he inquired about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"
Gen 43:29 – And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
Gen 43:31 – Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, "Serve the food."
Gen 44:4 – They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?
Gen 44:15 – Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?"
Gen 44:17 – But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."
Gen 44:21 – Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
Gen 44:23 – Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'
Gen 45:3 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 45:4 – So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:17 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,
Gen 45:24 – Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."
Gen 46:31 – Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Gen 47:1 – So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."
Gen 47:16 – And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone."
Gen 47:23 – Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
Gen 47:30 – but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."
Gen 48:9 – Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them."
Gen 48:18 – And Joseph said to his father, "Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head."
Gen 50:19 – But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?
Gen 50:24 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Ex 13:19 – Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here."
come, בוא
Gen 37:2 – These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
Gen 37:14 – So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 37:19 – They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer.
Gen 37:23 – So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
Gen 39:11 – But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,
Gen 39:14 – she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
Gen 39:17 – and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.
Gen 40:6 – When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled.
Gen 41:14 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
Gen 43:25 – they prepared the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Gen 43:26 – When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.
Gen 43:30 – Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
Gen 47:1 – So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."
Gen 47:7 – Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Gen 47:14 – And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Gen 48:2 – And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
Gen 50:10 – When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
do, עשׂה
Gen 39:3 – His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
Gen 39:19 – As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.
Gen 39:22 – And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
Gen 39:23 – The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.
Gen 40:15 – For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."
Gen 44:17 – But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Gen 47:30 – but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."
Gen 50:10 – When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Gen 50:12 – Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,
speak, דבר
Gen 42:7 – Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
Gen 42:14 – But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you. You are spies.
Gen 42:24 – Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Gen 42:30 – "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
Gen 44:2 – and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.
Gen 44:7 – They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
Gen 45:12 – And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
Gen 45:27 – But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
Gen 50:4 – And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Gen 50:21 – So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
see, ראה
Gen 37:14 – So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 40:6 – When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled.
Gen 41:41 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
Gen 42:7 – Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
Gen 43:16 – When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."
Gen 43:29 – And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen 48:17 – When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
Gen 50:23 – And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
give, נתן
Gen 41:48 – and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.
Gen 42:34 – Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
Gen 45:2 – And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
Gen 45:21 – The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
Gen 45:22 – To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.
Gen 47:16 – And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone."
Gen 47:17 – So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
Gen 47:19 – Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."
be, היה
Gen 37:2 – These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
Gen 39:2 – The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
Gen 39:6 – So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
Gen 39:20 – And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
Gen 39:22 – And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
Gen 41:40 – You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."
Ex 1:5 – All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
weep, בכה
Gen 42:24 – Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Gen 43:30 – Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
Gen 45:14 – Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Gen 45:15 – And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen 50:1 – Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
bury, קבר
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Gen 47:30 – but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."
Gen 49:29 – Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Gen 50:5 – My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
Gen 50:6 – And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."
Gen 50:7 – So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Gen 50:14 – After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
go out, יצא
Gen 39:12 – she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
Gen 39:15 – And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."
Gen 41:45 – And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:46 – Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
Gen 43:31 – Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, "Serve the food."
Gen 48:12 – Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
return, שׁוב
Gen 37:14 – So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 42:24 – Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Gen 50:5 – My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
Gen 50:14 – After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
Gen 50:15 – When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."
hear, שׁמע
Gen 39:10 – And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
Gen 39:15 – And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."
Gen 41:15 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
Gen 42:23 – They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
Gen 49:2 – "Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.
take, לקח
Gen 42:24 – Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Gen 47:2 – And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.
Gen 48:1 – After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Gen 48:9 – Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them."
Gen 48:13 – And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him.
die, מות
Gen 42:38 – But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
Gen 44:20 – And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'
Gen 50:24 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Gen 50:26 – So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Ex 1:6 – Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
ascend, עלה
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen 46:31 – Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Gen 50:5 – My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
Gen 50:6 – And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."
Gen 50:7 – So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
dream, חלם
Gen 37:5 – Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
Gen 37:6 – He said to them, "Hear this dream that I have dreamed:
Gen 37:9 – Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Gen 37:10 – But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
flee, נוס
Gen 39:12 – she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
Gen 39:13 – And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,
Gen 39:15 – And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."
Gen 39:18 – But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house."
ask, שׁאל
Gen 40:7 – So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"
Gen 43:7 – They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"
Gen 43:27 – And he inquired about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"
Gen 44:19 – My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
interpret, פתר
Gen 40:22 – But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Gen 41:12 – A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
Gen 41:13 – And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."
Gen 41:15 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
command, צוה
Gen 42:25 – And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.
Gen 44:1 – Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,
Gen 45:19 – And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Gen 50:2 – And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
know, ידע
Gen 42:33 – Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
Gen 42:34 – Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
Gen 45:1 – Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Gen 47:6 – The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
send, שׁלח
Gen 43:14 – May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
Gen 45:23 – To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.
Gen 45:24 – Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."
Gen 45:27 – But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
put, שׂים
Gen 44:21 – Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
Gen 45:7 – And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
Gen 47:26 – So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
buy, קנה
Gen 47:19 – Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."
Gen 47:20 – So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's.
Gen 47:22 – Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
Gen 47:23 – Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
approach, נגשׁ
Gen 33:7 – Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
Gen 48:10 – Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Gen 48:13 – And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him.
report, נגד
Gen 37:5 – Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
Gen 46:31 – Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Gen 47:1 – So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."
count, ספר
Gen 37:9 – Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Gen 37:10 – But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
Gen 41:49 – And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.
walk, הלך
Gen 37:13 – And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Gen 37:14 – So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 37:17 – And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
find, מצא
Gen 37:17 – And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Gen 39:4 – So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
Gen 50:4 – And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
leave, עזב
Gen 39:13 – And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,
Gen 39:15 – And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."
Gen 39:18 – But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house."
call, קרא
Gen 41:51 – Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."
Gen 41:52 – The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
Gen 45:1 – Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
bind, אסר
Gen 42:24 – Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
lift, נשׂא
Gen 43:29 – And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
Gen 47:30 – but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
be alive, חיה
Gen 45:7 – And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
Gen 47:25 – And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."
Gen 50:22 – So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.
comprehend, כול
Gen 45:11 – There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'
Gen 47:12 – And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
Gen 50:21 – So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
fall, נפל
Gen 45:14 – Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen 50:1 – Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
sit, ישׁב
Gen 47:6 – The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
Gen 47:11 – Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Gen 50:22 – So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.
bow down, חוה
Gen 33:7 – Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
Gen 48:12 – Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
rule, משׁל
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 45:26 – And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
seek, בקשׁ
Gen 37:15 – And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
Gen 43:30 – Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
attend to, פקד
Gen 39:4 – So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
Gen 39:5 – From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in house and field.
serve, שׁרת
Gen 39:4 – So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
Gen 40:4 – The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody.
lie down, שׁכב
Gen 39:7 – And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
Gen 39:12 – she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
laugh, צחק
Gen 39:14 – she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
Gen 39:17 – and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.
answer, ענה
Gen 40:18 – And Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.
Gen 41:16 – Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."
stand, עמד
Gen 41:46 – Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
Gen 47:7 – Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
pass over, עבר
Gen 41:46 – Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
Gen 47:21 – As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.
collect, קבץ
Gen 41:48 – and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.
Gen 49:2 – "Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.
regard, נכר
Gen 42:7 – Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
Gen 42:8 – And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
gather, אסף
Gen 42:17 – And he put them all together in custody for three days.
Gen 49:1 – Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.
be strong, אפק
Gen 43:31 – Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, "Serve the food."
Gen 45:1 – Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
kiss, נשׁק
Gen 45:15 – And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Gen 50:1 – Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
give, יהב
Gen 47:15 – And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
Gen 47:16 – And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone."
swear, שׁבע
Gen 47:31 – And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
Gen 50:25 – Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
pasture, רעה
Gen 37:2 – These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
bind, אלם
Gen 37:7 – Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."
be king, מלך
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
err, תעה
Gen 37:15 – And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
approach, קרב
Gen 37:18 – They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
tear, טרף
Gen 37:33 – And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
descend, ירד
Gen 39:1 – Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
refuse, מאן
Gen 39:8 – But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
steal, גנב
Gen 40:15 – For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."
come after, חלף
Gen 41:14 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
shave, גלח
Gen 41:14 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
heap, צבר
Gen 41:49 – And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.
cease, חדל
Gen 41:49 – And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.
open, פתח
Gen 41:56 – So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
buy grain, שׁבר
Gen 42:6 – Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
remember, זכר
Gen 42:9 – And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
fear, ירא
Gen 42:18 – On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
shew favour, חנן
Gen 42:21 – Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."
turn, סבב
Gen 42:24 – Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
slander, רגל
Gen 42:30 – "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
bear witness, עוד
Gen 43:3 – But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
hasten, מהר
Gen 43:30 – Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
grow hot, כמר
Gen 43:30 – Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
wash, רחץ
Gen 43:31 – Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, "Serve the food."
drink, שׁתה
Gen 44:5 – Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"
divine, נחשׁ
Gen 44:5 – Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"
be able, יכל
Gen 45:1 – Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
put, שׁית
Gen 46:4 – I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."
encounter, קרא
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
set, יצג
Gen 47:2 – And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.
gather, לקט
Gen 47:14 – And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
lead, נהל
Gen 47:17 – So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
grasp, תמך
Gen 48:17 – When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
lament, ספד
Gen 50:10 – When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
grave, קבר
Gen 50:14 – After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
bear grudge, שׂטם
Gen 50:15 – When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."
repent, console, נחם
Gen 50:21 – So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
sell, מכר
Ps 105:17 – he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
be wise, חכם
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
to plan, βούλομαι
Mt 1:19 – And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
to do/make, ποιέω
Mt 1:24 – When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife,
to wrap up, ἐντυλίσσω
Mt 27:59 – And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud
to enter, εἰσέρχομαι
Mk 15:43 – Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
to ascend, ἀναβαίνω
Lk 2:4 – And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
to ask, ἐρωτάω
Jn 19:38 – After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
to govern, ἡγέομαι
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
to recognize, ἀναγνωρίζω
Acts 7:13 – And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
to summon, μετακαλέω
Acts 7:14 – And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
to order, ἐντέλλω
Heb 11:22 – By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
to remember, μνημονεύω
Heb 11:22 – By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
to die, τελευτάω
Heb 11:22 – By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
Joseph referred to as
son, בֵּן
Gen 30:23 – She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."
Gen 31:55 – Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home.
Gen 32:11 – Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.
Gen 35:24 – The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen 37:3 – Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
Gen 37:32 – And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, "This we have found; please identify whether it is your son's robe or not."
Gen 37:33 – And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
Gen 37:34 – Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Gen 37:35 – All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
Gen 45:9 – Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
Gen 45:28 – And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
Gen 46:19 – The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Gen 48:2 – And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
Gen 49:1 – Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.
Gen 49:2 – "Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.
Gen 49:22 – "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
Gen 50:12 – Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,
Ex 28:21 – There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
Ex 39:14 – There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
1 Chr 2:1 – These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
1 Chr 5:1 – The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;
1 Chr 7:29 – also in possession of the Manassites, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
Lord, אָדֹון
Gen 42:30 – "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
Gen 42:33 – Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
Gen 44:5 – Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"
Gen 44:7 – They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
Gen 44:9 – Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord's servants."
Gen 44:16 – And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."
Gen 44:18 – Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
Gen 44:19 – My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
Gen 44:22 – We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
Gen 44:24 – "When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Gen 44:33 – Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
Gen 45:8 – So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Gen 45:9 – Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
Gen 47:18 – And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.
Gen 47:25 – And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."
Ps 105:21 – he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,
he, הוּא
Gen 37:2 – These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
Gen 37:3 – Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
Gen 37:27 – Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
Gen 39:3 – His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
Gen 39:22 – And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
Gen 39:23 – The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.
Gen 42:6 – Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Gen 42:14 – But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you. You are spies.
Gen 44:14 – When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.
Gen 50:22 – So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.
man, אִישׁ
Gen 39:14 – she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
Gen 42:33 – Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
Gen 43:3 – But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
Gen 43:5 – But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
Gen 43:6 – Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?"
Gen 43:7 – They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"
Gen 43:13 – Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man.
Gen 43:14 – May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
Gen 44:26 – we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Ps 105:17 – he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
boy, יֶלֶד
Gen 30:26 – Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you."
Gen 33:5 – And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
Gen 33:13 – But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.
Gen 33:14 – Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir."
Gen 37:30 – and returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone, and I, where shall I go?"
Gen 42:22 – And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood."
Gen 44:20 – And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'
brother, אָח
Gen 37:26 – Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Gen 37:27 – Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
Gen 42:21 – Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."
Gen 42:38 – But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
Gen 44:20 – And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'
Gen 45:4 – So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
servant, עֶבֶד
Gen 39:17 – and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.
Gen 39:19 – As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.
Gen 41:12 – A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
Ps 105:17 – he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
I, אֲנִי
Gen 42:18 – On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
Gen 45:3 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 45:4 – So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen 50:19 – But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?
rule, משׁל
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 45:8 – So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Ps 105:21 – he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,
one, אֶחָד
Gen 37:20 – Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."
Gen 42:32 – We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
Gen 44:28 – One left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.
man, אִישׁ
Gen 39:2 – The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
Gen 42:30 – "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
Gen 49:28 – All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
I, אָנֹכִי
Gen 47:30 – but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."
Gen 50:21 – So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Gen 50:24 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
seed, זֶרַע
Gen 32:12 – But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"
Gen 48:4 – and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.'
thou, אַתָּה
Gen 41:40 – You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."
Gen 45:19 – And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
we, אֲנַחְנוּ
Gen 37:7 – Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."
be king, מלך
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
lord, baal, בַּעַל
Gen 37:19 – They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer.
advance, צלח
Gen 39:2 – The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
boy, נַעַר
Gen 41:12 – A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
wise, חָכָם
Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
understand, בין
Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
bear witness, עוד
Gen 43:3 – But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
ask, שׁאל
Gen 43:7 – They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"
divine, נחשׁ
Gen 44:5 – Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"
father, אָב
Gen 45:8 – So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
rod, שֵׁבֶט
Gen 49:28 – All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
return, שׁוב
Gen 50:15 – When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."
Ephraim, אֶפְרַיִם
Josh 16:4 – The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
Manasseh, מְנַשֶּׁה
Josh 16:4 – The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
tree, עֵץ
Ezek 37:16 – "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.'
he/she/it/self, αὐτός
Acts 7:9 – "And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
Acts 7:13 – And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
Acts 7:14 – And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
Heb 11:22 – By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
son, υἱός
Jn 4:5 – So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Joseph as explicit or implied direct object
[object marker], אֵת
Gen 37:4 – But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
Gen 37:5 – Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 37:9 – Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Gen 37:18 – They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
Gen 37:22 – And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; cast him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"–that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
Gen 37:24 – And they took him and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
Gen 37:35 – All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
Gen 39:20 – And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
Gen 40:15 – For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."
Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
Gen 41:41 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
Gen 41:42 – Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.
Gen 41:43 – And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
Gen 45:3 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 45:4 – So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:5 – And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Gen 45:8 – So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Gen 48:21 – Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Gen 49:1 – Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.
Gen 49:28 – All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
Gen 49:29 – Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Gen 50:15 – When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."
Gen 50:21 – So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Gen 50:26 – So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
send, שׁלח
Gen 37:13 – And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Gen 37:14 – So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 45:5 – And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Gen 45:7 – And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
call, קרא
Gen 30:24 – And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!"
Gen 41:14 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
Gen 41:45 – And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
put, שׂים
Gen 45:8 – So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Gen 45:9 – Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
Ps 105:21 – he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,
eat, אכל
Gen 37:20 – Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."
Gen 37:33 – And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."
sell, מכר
Gen 37:27 – Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
Gen 37:28 – Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
remember, זכר
Gen 40:14 – Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
Gen 40:23 – Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
see, ראה
Gen 44:28 – One left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.
Gen 45:28 – And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
bless, ברך
Gen 48:15 – And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
Gen 49:25 – by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
swear, שׁבע
Gen 50:5 – My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
Gen 50:6 – And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."
bear, ילד
Gen 30:25 – As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
pass over, עבר
Gen 32:23 – He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.
love, אהב
Gen 37:3 – Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
speak, דבר
Gen 37:4 – But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
find, מצא
Gen 37:15 – And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
ask, שׁאל
Gen 37:15 – And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
die, מות
Gen 37:18 – They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
kill, הרג
Gen 37:20 – Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."
throw, שׁלך
Gen 37:20 – Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."
strike, נכה
Gen 37:21 – But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."
deliver, נצל
Gen 37:21 – But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."
return, שׁוב
Gen 37:22 – And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; cast him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"–that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
strip off, פשׁט
Gen 37:23 – So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
take, לקח
Gen 37:24 – And they took him and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
ascend, עלה
Gen 37:28 – Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
come, בוא
Gen 37:28 – Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
descend, ירד
Gen 39:1 – Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
seize, תפשׂ
Gen 39:12 – she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
give, נתן
Gen 39:20 – And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
attend to, פקד
Gen 40:4 – The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody.
go out, יצא
Gen 40:14 – Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
forget, שׁכח
Gen 40:23 – Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
run, רוץ
Gen 41:14 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
forget, נשׁה
Gen 41:51 – Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."
be fertile, פרה
Gen 41:52 – The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
regard, נכר
Gen 42:8 – And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
be bitter, מרר
Gen 49:23 – The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely,
help, עזר
Gen 49:25 – by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
command, צוה
Gen 50:12 – Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,
deal fully, גמל
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
know, ידע
Ex 1:8 – Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
drive, נהג
Ps 80:1 – Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
melt, צרף
Ps 105:19 – until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.
be free, נתר
Ps 105:20 – The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free;
open, פתח
Ps 105:20 – The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free;
to beget, γεννάω
Mt 1:16 – and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
to find, ἀνευρίσκω
Lk 2:16 – And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.
be eager, ζηλόω
Acts 7:9 – "And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
to take out/select, ἐξαιρέω
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
to appoint/conduct, καθίστημι
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
to know, εἴδω
Acts 7:18 – until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.
Joseph as explicit or implied indirect object
to, אֶל
Gen 37:13 – And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Gen 39:7 – And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
Gen 39:10 – And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
Gen 39:21 – But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Gen 40:8 – They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."
Gen 40:16 – When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,
Gen 41:15 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
Gen 41:17 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.
Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
Gen 41:41 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
Gen 41:44 – Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
Gen 41:55 – When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
Gen 41:57 – Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Gen 42:10 – They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.
Gen 42:20 – and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.
Gen 42:31 – But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we have never been spies.
Gen 42:34 – Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
Gen 43:29 – And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
Gen 44:18 – Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
Gen 44:21 – Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
Gen 45:4 – So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:9 – Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
Gen 45:10 – You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
Gen 45:17 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,
Gen 46:28 – He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Gen 46:30 – Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."
Gen 46:31 – Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Gen 47:5 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Gen 47:15 – And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
Gen 47:17 – So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
Gen 47:18 – And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.
Gen 48:3 – And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
Gen 48:5 – And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
Gen 48:11 – And Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also."
Gen 48:21 – Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Gen 49:29 – Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Gen 50:16 – So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
to, for , לְ
Gen 37:3 – Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 37:9 – Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Gen 37:10 – But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
Gen 37:14 – So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 39:5 – From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in house and field.
Gen 40:8 – They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."
Gen 40:9 – So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,
Gen 41:12 – A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
Gen 41:45 – And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Gen 41:50 – Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.
Gen 42:6 – Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Gen 43:7 – They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"
Gen 43:26 – When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.
Gen 43:32 – They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Gen 44:17 – But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."
Gen 46:20 – And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.
Gen 46:27 – And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
Gen 47:18 – And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Gen 48:1 – After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Gen 48:5 – And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
Gen 48:6 – And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Gen 48:9 – Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them."
Gen 48:22 – Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."
Gen 49:1 – Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.
Gen 49:28 – All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Gen 50:18 – His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."
Deut 33:13 – And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,
1 Chr 5:2 – though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),
1 Chr 25:9 – The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, to him and his brothers and his sons, twelve;
Ezek 37:16 – "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.'
say, אמר
Gen 37:13 – And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Gen 40:16 – When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,
Gen 41:15 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
Gen 41:41 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
Gen 41:44 – Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
Gen 45:17 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,
Gen 46:30 – Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."
Gen 47:5 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Gen 48:1 – After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Gen 48:3 – And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
Gen 48:11 – And Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also."
Gen 48:21 – Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Deut 33:13 – And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,
together with, אֵת
Gen 39:2 – The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
Gen 39:3 – His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
Gen 39:8 – But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Gen 39:21 – But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Gen 39:23 – The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.
Gen 40:7 – So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"
Gen 42:33 – Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
Gen 43:16 – When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."
Gen 43:32 – They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Gen 45:1 – Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Gen 45:15 – And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Gen 50:14 – After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
in, among , בְּ
Gen 37:10 – But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
Gen 37:11 – And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
Gen 37:22 – And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; cast him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"–that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
Gen 37:27 – Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
Ps 81:5 – He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
above, עַל
Gen 37:23 – So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
Gen 41:15 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
Gen 45:1 – Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Gen 50:20 – As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
with, עִם
Gen 43:34 – Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.
Gen 48:1 – After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Gen 48:21 – Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Gen 50:9 – And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
like, כְּמֹו
Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
Gen 44:15 – Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?"
Gen 44:18 – Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
out of, מִן
Gen 39:9 – He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"
Gen 41:40 – You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."
speak, דבר
Gen 39:10 – And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
Gen 41:17 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.
without, בִּלְעֲדֵי
Gen 41:16 – Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."
Gen 41:44 – Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
bear, ילד
Gen 41:50 – Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.
Gen 46:20 – And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.
come, בוא
Gen 47:15 – And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
Gen 47:17 – So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
lift, נשׂא
Gen 39:7 – And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
count, ספר
Gen 40:9 – So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,
company, עִמָּד
Gen 40:14 – Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
walk, הלך
Gen 41:55 – When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
interval, בַּיִן
Gen 42:23 – They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
send, שׁלח
Gen 46:28 – He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
counterpart, נֶגֶד
Gen 47:15 – And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
call, קרא
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
command, צוה
Gen 50:16 – So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,
go out, יצא
1 Chr 25:9 – The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, to him and his brothers and his sons, twelve;
to shine/appear, φαίνω
Mt 2:13 – Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him."
Mt 2:19 – But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
to give, δίδωμι
Jn 4:5 – So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
to betroth, μνηστεύω
Mt 1:18 – Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
to give, δωρέω
Mk 15:45 – And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.
with/after, μετά
Acts 7:9 – "And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
… of Joseph
brother, אָח
Gen 37:2 – These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
Gen 37:4 – But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
Gen 37:5 – Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 37:9 – Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Gen 37:10 – But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
Gen 37:11 – And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
Gen 37:12 – Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.
Gen 37:13 – And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Gen 37:14 – So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Gen 37:17 – And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Gen 37:23 – So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
Gen 42:3 – So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
Gen 42:4 – But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.
Gen 42:6 – Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Gen 42:7 – Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
Gen 42:8 – And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
Gen 43:29 – And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
Gen 43:30 – Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
Gen 45:1 – Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Gen 45:3 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 45:4 – So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:12 – And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
Gen 45:14 – Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Gen 45:15 – And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Gen 45:16 – When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.
Gen 45:17 – And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,
Gen 45:24 – Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."
Gen 46:31 – Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Gen 47:1 – So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."
Gen 47:2 – And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.
Gen 47:3 – Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."
Gen 47:5 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Gen 47:6 – The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
Gen 47:11 – Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Gen 47:12 – And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
Gen 48:22 – Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."
Gen 49:26 – The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
Gen 50:8 – as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
Gen 50:14 – After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
Gen 50:15 – When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Gen 50:18 – His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."
Gen 50:24 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Ex 1:6 – Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
father, אָב
Gen 37:2 – These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
Gen 37:10 – But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
Gen 37:11 – And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
Gen 37:22 – And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; cast him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"–that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
Gen 37:35 – All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
Gen 41:51 – Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."
Gen 45:3 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 45:9 – Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
Gen 45:13 – You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here."
Gen 45:23 – To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
Gen 46:31 – Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Gen 47:1 – So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."
Gen 47:5 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Gen 47:6 – The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
Gen 47:7 – Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Gen 47:11 – Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Gen 47:12 – And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
Gen 48:1 – After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Gen 48:9 – Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them."
Gen 48:17 – When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
Gen 48:18 – And Joseph said to his father, "Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head."
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
Gen 48:21 – Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Gen 49:2 – "Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.
Gen 49:25 – by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Gen 49:26 – The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
Gen 49:28 – All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
Gen 50:1 – Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
Gen 50:2 – And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Gen 50:5 – My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
Gen 50:6 – And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."
Gen 50:7 – So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Gen 50:8 – as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
Gen 50:10 – When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Gen 50:14 – After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
Gen 50:16 – So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,
Gen 50:17 – 'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Gen 50:22 – So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.
son, בֵּן
Gen 43:29 – And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
Gen 46:27 – And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
Gen 48:1 – After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Gen 48:5 – And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
Gen 48:8 – When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?"
Gen 48:9 – Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them."
Num 1:10 – from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
Num 1:32 – Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Num 13:7 – from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
Num 26:28 – The sons of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Num 26:37 – These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.
Num 27:1 – Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Num 32:33 – And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
Num 34:23 – Of the people of Joseph: of the tribe of the people of Manasseh a chief, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Num 36:1 – The heads of the fathers' houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel.
Num 36:5 – And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The tribe of the people of Joseph is right.
Num 36:12 – They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father's clan.
Josh 14:4 – For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.
Josh 16:1 – The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.
Josh 16:4 – The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
Josh 17:2 – And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.
Josh 17:14 – Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?"
Josh 17:16 – The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel."
Josh 18:11 – The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph.
Josh 24:32 – As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
1 Chr 5:1 – The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;
1 Chr 7:29 – also in possession of the Manassites, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
Ps 77:15 – You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
house, בַּיִת
Gen 43:16 – When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."
Gen 43:17 – The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph's house.
Gen 43:18 – And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys."
Gen 43:19 – So they went up to the steward of Joseph's house and spoke with him at the door of the house,
Gen 43:24 – And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder,
Gen 44:1 – Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,
Gen 44:4 – They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?
Gen 44:14 – When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.
Gen 50:8 – as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
Josh 17:17 – Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, "You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,
Josh 18:5 – They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north.
Judg 1:22 – The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
Judg 1:23 – And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
Judg 1:35 – The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.
2 Sam 19:20 – For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."
1 Kgs 11:28 – The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.
Amos 5:6 – Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
Obad 1:18 – The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.
Zech 10:6 – "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.
face, פָּנֶה
Gen 33:3 – He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Gen 41:43 – And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
Gen 43:3 – But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
Gen 43:5 – But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
Gen 43:15 – So the men took this present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin. They arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
Gen 43:31 – Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, "Serve the food."
Gen 43:33 – And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth. And the men looked at one another in amazement.
Gen 43:34 – Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.
Gen 44:14 – When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.
Gen 44:23 – Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'
Gen 45:3 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 46:30 – Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."
Gen 47:6 – The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
Gen 48:11 – And Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also."
Gen 50:18 – His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."
servant, עֶבֶד
Gen 42:10 – They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.
Gen 42:11 – We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies."
Gen 42:13 – And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
Gen 43:28 – They said, "Your servant our father is well; he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.
Gen 44:18 – Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
Gen 44:19 – My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
Gen 44:21 – Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
Gen 44:23 – Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'
Gen 44:24 – "When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Gen 44:27 – Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Gen 44:30 – "Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life,
Gen 44:32 – For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'
Gen 44:33 – Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
Gen 50:2 – And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
hand, יָד
Gen 39:3 – His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
Gen 39:4 – So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
Gen 39:6 – So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
Gen 39:8 – But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Gen 39:22 – And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
Gen 39:23 – The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.
Gen 41:42 – Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.
Gen 46:4 – I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Gen 49:24 – yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
Lord, אָדֹון
Gen 39:2 – The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
Gen 39:3 – His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
Gen 39:7 – And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
Gen 39:8 – But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Gen 39:16 – Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,
Gen 39:19 – As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.
Gen 39:20 – And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
Gen 40:7 – So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"
Gen 42:10 – They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.
garment, בֶּגֶד
Gen 39:12 – she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
Gen 39:13 – And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,
Gen 39:15 – And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."
Gen 39:16 – Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,
Gen 39:18 – But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house."
word, דָּבָר
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 44:2 – and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.
Gen 45:27 – But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
Ps 105:19 – until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.
eye, עַיִן
Gen 44:21 – Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
Gen 47:19 – Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."
Gen 47:29 – And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Gen 48:17 – When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
soul, נֶפֶשׁ
Gen 42:21 – Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."
Ps 105:18 – His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron;
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
bone, עֶצֶם
Gen 50:25 – Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
Ex 13:19 – Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here."
Josh 24:32 – As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
dream, חֲלֹום
Gen 37:8 – His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
Gen 37:20 – Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."
mother, אֵם
Gen 37:10 – But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
Gen 43:29 – And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"
tunic, כֻּתֹּנֶת
Gen 37:23 – So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
Gen 37:31 – Then they took Joseph's robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
blood, דָּם
Gen 37:26 – Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Gen 42:22 – And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood."
mouth, פֶּה
Gen 41:40 – You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."
Gen 45:12 – And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
neck, צַוָּאר
Gen 41:42 – Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.
Gen 45:14 – Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
nose, אַף
Gen 44:18 – Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
Gen 48:12 – Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
head, רֹאשׁ
Gen 49:26 – The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
Deut 33:16 – with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
sheaf, אֲלֻמָּה
Gen 37:7 – Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."
matter, גָּלָל
Gen 39:5 – From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in house and field.
work, מְלֶאכֶת
Gen 39:11 – But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,
grace, חֵן
Gen 39:21 – But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
mantle, שִׂמְלָה
Gen 41:14 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
name, שֵׁם
Gen 41:45 – And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
labour, עָמָל
Gen 41:51 – Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."
poverty, עֳנִי
Gen 41:52 – The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
compassion, רַחֲמִים
Gen 43:30 – Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
linen, part, stave, בַּד
Gen 43:32 – They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
cup, גָּבִיעַ
Gen 44:2 – and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.
sound, קֹול
Gen 45:2 – And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
weight, כָּבֹוד
Gen 45:13 – You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here."
chariot, מִרְכֶּבֶת
Gen 46:29 – Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
offspring, מֹולֶדֶת
Gen 48:6 – And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
seed, זֶרַע
Gen 48:11 – And Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also."
bow, קֶשֶׁת
Gen 49:24 – yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
blessing, בְּרָכָה
Gen 49:28 – All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
knee, בֶּרֶךְ
Gen 50:23 – And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
staff, מַטֶּה
Num 13:11 – from the tribe of Joseph (that is, from the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi;
first-born, בְּכֹר
Josh 17:1 – Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.
Dan, דָּן
1 Chr 2:2 – Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
tent, אֹהֶל
Ps 78:67 – He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
foot, רֶגֶל
Ps 105:18 – His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron;
old, זָקֵן
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
companion, חָבֵר
Ezek 37:16 – "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.'
tree, עֵץ
Ezek 37:19 – say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.
gate, שַׁעַר
Ezek 48:32 – On the east side, which is to be 4,500 cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.
rest, שְׁאֵרִית
Amos 5:15 – Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
breaking, שֶׁבֶר
Amos 6:6 – who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
son, υἱός
Lk 3:23 – Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
Lk 4:22 – And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"
Jn 1:45 – Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
Jn 6:42 – They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"
Heb 11:21 – By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
the/this/who, ὁ
Lk 3:24 – the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
Lk 3:30 – the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
mother, μήτηρ
Mt 27:56 – among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
pressure, θλῖψις
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
brother, ἀδελφός
Acts 7:13 – And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
family, γένος
Acts 7:13 – And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.
father, πατήρ
Acts 7:14 – And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
bone, ὀστέον
Heb 11:22 – By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
tribe, φυλή
Rev 7:8 – 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.
Joseph and …
Benjamin, בִּנְיָמִן
Gen 35:24 – The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen 46:19 – The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Deut 27:12 – "When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Rachel, רָחֵל
Gen 33:7 – Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
whole, כֹּל
Ex 1:6 – Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
brother, אָח
Ex 1:6 – Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
Nethaniah, נְתַנְיָה
1 Chr 25:2 – Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.
… and Joseph
Rachel, רָחֵל
Gen 33:2 – And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
Issachar, יִשָּׂשׂכָר
Deut 27:12 – "When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Zaccur, זַכּוּר
1 Chr 25:2 – Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.
Amariah, אֲמַרְיָה
Ezra 10:42 – Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
Joseph is …
in, among , בְּ
Gen 37:29 – When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
Ex 1:5 – All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
son, בֵּן
Gen 41:46 – Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
Gen 49:22 – "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
alive, חַי
Gen 45:26 – And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
Gen 45:28 – And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
beautiful, יָפֶה
Gen 39:6 – So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
form, תֹּאַר
Gen 39:6 – So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
sight, מַרְאֶה
Gen 39:6 – So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
bind, אסר
Gen 40:3 – and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
hear, שׁמע
Gen 42:23 – They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
to, for , לְ
1 Chr 25:2 – Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.
cord, חֶבֶל
Ezek 47:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: "This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
… is Joseph
son, בֵּן
Gen 35:24 – The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen 46:19 – The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
I, אֲנִי
Gen 45:3 – And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
Gen 45:4 – So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
brother, ἀδελφός
Mt 13:55 – Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
by name, τοὔνομα
Mt 27:57 – When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.
name, ὄνομα
Lk 1:27 – to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.