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Deuteronomy 33

Deut. 33:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And of Joseph
Yowceph (Hebrew #3130)
let him add (or perhaps simply active participle adding); Joseph, the name of seven Israelites
KJV usage: Joseph. Compare 3084.
Pronounce: yo-safe'
Origin: future of 3254
he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Blessed
barak (Hebrew #1288)
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
KJV usage: X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank.
Pronounce: baw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
be his land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, for the precious things
meged (Hebrew #4022)
properly, a distinguished thing; hence something valuable, as a product or fruit
KJV usage: pleasant, precious fruit (thing).
Pronounce: meh'-ghed
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be eminent
of heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
, for the dew
tal (Hebrew #2919)
dew (as covering vegetation)
KJV usage: dew.
Pronounce: tal
Origin: from 2926
l, and for the deep
thowm (Hebrew #8415)
(usually feminine) from 1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply)
KJV usage: deep (place), depth.
Pronounce: teh-home'
Origin: or thom {teh-home'}
that coucheth beneath
rabats (Hebrew #7257)
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
KJV usage: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
Pronounce: raw-bats'
Origin: a primitive root
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Gen. 27:28• 28And God give thee of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and new wine. (Gen. 27:28)

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Cross References

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Joseph.
Gen. 48:5,9,15‑20• 5And now thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, [shall be] mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon.
 9And Joseph said to his father, They [are] my sons whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee unto me, that I may bless them.
 15And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom walked my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, the God that tended me all my life long till this day,
 16the angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth .
 17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
 18And Joseph said to his father, Not so my father, for this [is] the first-born: put thy right hand on his head.
 19But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become a fullness of nations.
 20And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh; and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. (Gen. 48:5,9,15‑20)
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Gen. 49:22‑26• 22Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain; daughters shoot over the wall.
 23The archers have provoked, and shot at and hated him;
 24but his bow abideth firm, and the arms of his hands are supple by the hands of the mighty One of Jacob. From thence [is] the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel;
 25from the God of thy father, he will help thee, and from the Almighty, he will bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, with blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, with blessings of the breast and of the womb.
 26The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my progenitors unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. (Gen. 49:22‑26)
the dew.
Deut. 32:2• 2My doctrine shall drop as rain,{HR}My speech flow down as dew,{HR}As small rain upon the tender herb,{HR}And as showers on the grass.{HR} (Deut. 32:2)
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Gen. 27:28‑29• 28And God give thee of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and new wine.
 29Let peoples serve thee and races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed every one that blesseth thee. (Gen. 27:28‑29)
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Job 29:19• 19My root is open toward the waters,{HR}And dew lodgeth all night on my branches. (Job 29:19)
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Psa. 110:3• 3Thy people offer themselves willingly{HR}In the day of thy power, in ornaments of holiness;{HR}From the womb of the dawn to thee [is] the dew of thy youth. (Psa. 110:3)
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Prov. 3:20• 20By his knowledge the depths were broken up,{HR}And the skies drop down the dew. (Prov. 3:20)
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Prov. 19:12• 12The king's wrath [is] as a lion's roaring;{HR}But his favour [is] as dew upon the grass. (Prov. 19:12)
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Isa. 18:4• 4For thus Jehovah said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will observe in my dwelling-place like clear heat upon herbs, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. (Isa. 18:4)
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Hos. 14:5• 5I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (Hos. 14:5)
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Mic. 5:7• 7And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from Jehovah, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. (Mic. 5:7)
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Zech. 8:12• 12for the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. (Zech. 8:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land! By the precious things of the heavens, By the dew, and by the deep that lieth beneath,

W. Kelly Translation

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And of Joseph he said,{HR}Blessed of Jehovah be his land for the precious things of the heavens,{HR}For the dew and for the deep couching beneath,