Genesis 47:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֶ֨ת־הָעָ֔ם הֶעֱבִ֥יר אֹת֖וֹ לֶעָרִ֑ים מִקְצֵ֥ה גְבוּל־מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַד־קָצֵֽהוּ׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾeṯ-hā'ām he'ĕḇîr ʾōṯô to the le'ārîm from miqṣēh gəḇûl-miṣrayim to wə-'aḏ-qāṣēhû

Grammar Details

*wə-ʾeṯ-hā'ām*: conjunction + direct object marker + definite article + noun masculine singular - and the people
*he'ĕḇîr*: Hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - he removed/transferred
*ʾōṯô*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - him/it
*le'ārîm*: preposition + noun feminine plural - to the cities
*miqṣēh*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - from the end of
*gəḇûl-miṣrayim*: noun masculine singular construct + proper noun - the border of Egypt
*wə-'aḏ-qāṣēhû*: conjunction + preposition + noun masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - even to its end

Word Meanings

*he'ĕḇîr*: removed/transferred/relocated/moved
*le'ārîm*: to the cities/to towns

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 41:48 : 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

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Gen 47:19-20
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20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's.
Gen 47:22-23
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22Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.
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Gen 41:48
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48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
Gen 41:41
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11And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, 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.
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Gen 45:20-21
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20Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
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Gen 47:26-27
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26And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's.
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Gen 41:55-57
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Gen 47:6-7
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6the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
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