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Genesis 48

Gen. 48:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And now thy two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
, Ephraim
'Ephrayim (Hebrew #669)
double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Pronounce: ef-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of masculine form of 672
and Manasseh
Mnashsheh (Hebrew #4519)
causing to forget; Menashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Manasseh.
Pronounce: men-ash-sheh'
Origin: from 5382
, whichn were born
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee in the 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
of Egypt
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
before
`ad (Hebrew #5704)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
KJV usage: against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-)to, + how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, (+ as) yet.
Pronounce: ad
Origin: properly, the same as 5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition)
I came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee into Egypt
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
, are mine; as Reuben
R'uwben (Hebrew #7205)
see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob
KJV usage: Reuben.
Pronounce: reh-oo-bane'
Origin: from the imperative of 7200 and 1121
and Simeon
Shim`own (Hebrew #8095)
hearing; Shimon, one of Jacob's sons, also the tribe descended from him
KJV usage: Simeon.
Pronounce: shim-one'
Origin: from 8085
, they shall be mine.
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Gen. 41:50‑52• 50And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera the priest of On bore to him.
 51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh (for God made me forget all my toil and all my father's house).
 52And the name of the second he called Ephraim (for God caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction). (Gen. 41:50‑52)

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two sons.
Gen. 41:50‑52• 50And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera the priest of On bore to him.
 51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh (for God made me forget all my toil and all my father's house).
 52And the name of the second he called Ephraim (for God caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction). (Gen. 41:50‑52)
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Gen. 46:20• 20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath bore to him, daughter of Potiphera, priest in On; (Gen. 46:20)
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Josh. 13:7• 7Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh. (Josh. 13:7)
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Josh. 14:4• 4{i}For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, and their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.{/i} (Josh. 14:4)
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Josh. 16:1‑17:18• 1{i}And the lot came forth for the children of Joseph from the Jordan of Jericho as far as the waters of Jericho eastwards, to the wilderness which goes up from Jericho to the hill-country of Bethel.{/i}
 2{i}And the border went from Bethel to Luz, and passed to the border of the Archites to Ataroth,{/i}
 3{i}and went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, as far as the border of the lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer; and ended at the sea.{/i}
 4{i}And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.{/i}
 5{i}And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their families; the border of their inheritance eastwards was Ataroth-Addar as far as the upper Beth-horon;{/i}
 6{i}and the border went forth westwards to Micmethath on the north; and the border turned eastwards to Taanath-Shiloh, and passed by it eastwards to Janohah,{/i}
 7{i}and went down from Janohah to Ataroth and Naarath, and touched upon Jericho, and went out to the Jordan.{/i}
 8{i}From Tappuah the border went westwards to the torrent Kanah, and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families,{/i}
 9{i}with the cities that were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities and their hamlets.{/i}
 10{i}But they did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt at Gezer; and the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and serve under tribute.{/i}
 1{i}And the lot came to the tribe of Manasseh (for he was the firstborn of Joseph), to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war, and he had Gilead and Bashan.{/i}
 2{i}There was also a portion for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these are the children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the males, according to their families.{/i}
 3{i}And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.{/i}
 4{i}And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. And he gave them according to the commandment of Jehovah an inheritance among the brethren of their father.{/i}
 5{i}And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which are beyond the Jordan.{/i}
 6{i}For the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons; and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.{/i}
 7{i}And the territory of Manasseh was from Asher to Micmethath, which is before Shechem, and the border went on the right hand toward the inhabitants of En-Tappuah.{/i}
 8{i}Manasseh had the land of Tappuah; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.{/i}
 9{i}And the border descended to the torrent Kanah, south of the torrent. These cities were Ephraim's among the cities of Manasseh. And the territory of Manasseh was on the north side of the torrent, and ended at the sea.{/i}
 10{i}Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. And they touched upon Asher on the north, and upon Issachar on the east.{/i}
 11{i}And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Beth-shean and its dependent villages, and Ibleam and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of En-Dor and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its dependent villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its dependent villages, the three hilly regions.{/i}
 12{i}But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess the inhabitants of those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in that land.{/i}
 13And it came to pass, when the Israelites were waxing strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
 14{i}And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying{/i}, Why hast thou given me one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as Jehovah hath blessed me hitherto?
 15{i}And Joshua said unto them, If thou art a great people, then get thee up to the wood, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.{/i}
 16{i}And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country will not be enough for us; and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, those that are of Beth-shean and its dependent villages, and those that are in the valley of Jizreel.{/i}
 17{i}And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying{/i}, Thou art a great people, and hast great power; thou shalt not have one lot only:
 18but the mountain shall be thine, {i}as it is a wood, thou shalt cut it down, and its outgoings shall be thine; for thou shalt dispossess the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots; for they are powerful.{/i} (Josh. 16:1‑17:18)
are mine.
Lev. 20:26• 26{i}And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine.{/i} (Lev. 20:26)
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Num. 1:10,32‑35• 10{i}for the children of Joseph: for Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;{/i}
 32{i}Of the sons of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service:{/i}
 33{i}those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.{/i}
 34{i}Of the children of Manasseh: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service:{/i}
 35{i}those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.{/i} (Num. 1:10,32‑35)
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Num. 26:28‑37• 28{i}The sons of Joseph, after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.{/i}
 29{i}The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites (and Machir begot Gilead); of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.{/i}
 30{i}These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helkites;{/i}
 31{i}and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;{/i}
 32{i}and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.{/i}
 33{i}—And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.{/i}
 34{i}—These are the families of Manasseh; and those that were numbered of them, fifty-two thousand seven hundred.{/i}
 35{i}These are the sons of Ephraim, after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.{/i}
 36{i}And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.{/i}
 37{i}These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.{/i} (Num. 26:28‑37)
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Isa. 43:1• 1But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called [thee] by thy name, thou [art] mine. (Isa. 43:1)
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Ezek. 16:8• 8{i}And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.{/i} (Ezek. 16:8)
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Mal. 3:17• 17And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. (Mal. 3:17)
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2 Cor. 6:18• 18and will be to you for Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:18)
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Eph. 1:5• 5having predestinated us for adoption through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (Eph. 1:5)
Reuben.
1 Chron. 5:1‑2• 1{i}And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but the genealogy is not registered according to the birthright,{/i}
 2Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's), (1 Chron. 5:1‑2)
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Rev. 7:6‑7• 6out of the tribe of Aser twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Nepthalim twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Manasses twelve thousand;
 7out of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand; (Rev. 7:6‑7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And now thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt beforea I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "until."

W. Kelly Translation

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And 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.