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10781 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Mother.4
… .” When Joseph told his dream to his family, “his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy [step]mother and thy …
10782 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. New; New Moon.10
… not Joseph.” This second nuance occurs in Isaiah’s discussion of the future salvation. For example, in Isaiah 42:10 a new saving act of God will bring forth a …
10783 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Nose.5
… ”: “… And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth” ( Genesis 42:6 ).
10784 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Number, Count.4
… : “And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number” ( Genesis 41:49 ). Finally, the verb sâphar can represent …
10785 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Offering.4
… son Joseph. Those who came to hear Solomon’s great wisdom all brought to him an appropriate “present” ( 1 Kings 10:25 ), doing so on a yearly basis.
10786 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Priest; Priesthood.5
Joseph married the daughter of the “priest” of On ( Genesis 41:45 ), and she bore him two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh ( Genesis 46:20 ). Joseph did not purchase the land …
10787 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Remember.5
… “remember.” Joseph said to Pharaoh’s butler: “But think on me …, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh …” ( Genesis 40:14; NIV, “remember … and mention”). Again, “to remember” means …
10788 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Right Hand.3
… ”: “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 …” ( Genesis 48:13 ). Ehud …
10789 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Rule.3
… :7 ). Joseph’s brothers respond to his dreams with the angry question: “Shalt thou indeed reign over us?” ( Genesis 37:8; the Hebrew verb here is literally “ruling will …
10790 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Run.4
… called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon.…” It appears again in the sense “quickly” in Psalms 68:31 : “… Let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her …
10791 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. See, Perceive.7
… ). When Joseph advised Pharaoh “to look out a man discreet and wise,” he was telling him to choose or select such a man ( Genesis 41:33 ). “To examine” may also be “to observe …
10792 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. See, Perceive.10
… : “Now Joseph was handsome in form [ mar’eh ] and appearance [ mar’eh ]” (NASB). Mar’eh refers more to external “appearance” ( Genesis 2:9 ), and the word can also connote “sight …
10793 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Seek.4
… asks Joseph: “What seekest thou?” A special nuance of this sense is “to seek out of a group; to choose, select” something or someone yet undesignated, as in 1 Samuel …
10794 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Seek.8
Only infrequently is bâqash used of seeking out a place, or as a verb of movement toward a place. So Joseph “sought [a place] to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there” ( Genesis 43:30 ).
10795 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Separate.10
… of Joseph … that was seperate from his brethren” (cf. Deuteronomy 33:16 ). Some modern-speech translators have translated nâzı̂yr in these two verses as “prince …
10796 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Set, Place.3
… something: “… Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes [close your eyes]” ( Genesis 46:4 ). One may “put on” ornaments ( Exodus 33:4 ); Naomi laid her “grandchild” Obed in her …
10797 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Shepherd.5
… . So “Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and [he was still a youth]” ( Genesis 37:2 ). Used metaphorically this verb represents …
10798 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Sick, to Be.3
… when Joseph is told: “Behold, thy father is sick …” ( Genesis 48:1 ).
10799 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Silver.6
… : “Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack …” ( Genesis 42:25 ). Frequently the word absolutely (by itself …
10800 Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Sow.10
… told Joseph: “Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate …