Genesis 49:22

Coverdale Bible (1535)

The fruteful sonne Ioseph, that florishinge sonne to loke vpon, the doughters go vpo the wall.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֵּ֤ן פֹּרָת֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף בֵּ֥ן פֹּרָ֖ת עֲלֵי־עָ֑יִן בָּנ֕וֹת צָעֲדָ֖ה עֲלֵי־שֽׁוּר

Transliteration

bēn pōrāt yôsēp bēn pōrāt upon-ʿāyin bānôt ṣāʿădāh upon-šûr

Grammar Details

• *bēn*: noun masculine singular construct - son of
• *pōrāt*: noun feminine singular - fruitfulness
• *yôsēp*: proper noun, masculine singular - Joseph
• *ʿāyin*: noun common singular - spring/eye
• *bānôt*: noun feminine plural - daughters
• *ṣāʿădāh*: Qal perfect 3rd feminine singular - she stepped/marched
• *šûr*: noun masculine singular - wall

Word Meanings

• *bēn pōrāt*: fruitful son/son of fruitfulness/fruitful bough
• *ʿāyin*: spring/fountain/eye
• *bānôt ṣāʿădāh*: daughters marched/stepped/ran over
• *šûr*: wall/fence/terrace

Referenced Verses

• Gen 41:52 : 52 The seconde called he Ephraim: for God (sayde he) hath caused me to growe in ye lande of my trouble.
• Gen 46:27 : 27 And Iosephs childre which were borne vnto him in Egipte, were two soules: so that all the soules of the house of Iacob which came into Egipte, were seuentye.
• Gen 48:1 : 1 After this it was tolde Ioseph: Beholde, yi father is sicke. And he toke with him his two sonnes Manasses and Ephraim.
• Gen 48:5 : 5 Therfore shal now thy two sonnes Manasses & Ephraim (which were borne vnto the in Egipte, before I came hither vnto the) be myne, like as Ruben & Simeon.
• Gen 48:16 : 16 the angell which hath delyuered me fro all euell, blesse these laddes, yt they maye be called after my name, & after ye name of my fathers Abraha & Isaac, yt they maye growe & multiplye vpon earth.
• Gen 48:19-20 : 19 Neuertheles his father wolde not, & saide: I knowe it well my sonne, I knowe it well, this shall be a people also, & shalbe greate: but his yonger brother shal be greater the he, & his sede shal be full of people. 20 So he blessed them the same daye & saide: In ye shal Israel blesse, so yt it shal be sayde: God set the as Ephraim & Manasses. And so he set Ephraim aboue Manasses.
• Num 32:1-9 : 1 The children of Ruben and the children of Gad had an exceadinge greate multitude of catell, and sawe the londe of Iaeser and Gilead yt it was a mete place for catell, 2 and came & spake vnto Moses and to Eleasar the prest, and to the captaynes of the congregacion: 3 The londe of Atroth, Dibon, Iaesar, Nimra, He?bo, Eleale, Seban, Nebo, & Beon, 4 which the LORDE smote before ye congregacion of Israel, is a mete londe for catell, and thy seruauntes haue many catell. 5 And they sayde morouer: Yf we haue founde fauoure before the, the geue thy seruauntes this londe in possession, and we wyl not go ouer Iordane. 6 Moses sayde vnto them: Youre brethren shall go to the warre, and wyll ye tary here? 7 Wherfore turne ye ye hertes of the children of Israel, that they shulde not go ouer in to the londe that the LORDE shall geue them? 8 Thus dyd youre fathers also, whan I sent them out from Cades Bernea, to spye out ye londe. 9 And whan they were come vp to ye ryuer of Escol, and sawe ye londe, they turned the hertes of the children of Israel, so yt they wolde not into the londe which ye LORDE wolde haue geuen them. 10 And the LORDE was wroth at the same tyme, & sware, & sayde: 11 These men yt are come out of Egipte, from twetye yeare olde & aboue, shall not se the lande which I sware vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, because they haue not wholy folowed me: 12 saue Caleb ye sonne of Iephune ye Kenisite, & Iosua ye sonne of Nun: for they haue wholy folowed ye LORDE. 13 So the LORDE was wroth wt Israel, & let the wander in the wildernesse fourtye yeares, tyll all ye generacion yt had done euell before the LORDE, was consumed. 14 And beholde, ye are rysen vp in youre fathers steade, to increase the nombre of synfull men, & to augmente yet the wrath & indignacion of the LORDE agaynst Israel. 15 For yf ye turne you backe from folowinge him, he shal yet leaue them more in the wildernes, & so shal ye destroye all this people. 16 Then stepte they to him, & sayde: we wyll but buylde shepefoldes here for oure shepe & catell, & cities for or children: 17 As for oure selues, we will go ready armed before the children of Israel, tyll we haue broughte them vnto their place: Oure childre shal remayne in the fenced cities, because of ye indwellers of the londe. 18 We will not turne home agayne, tyll the children of Israel haue taken euery one his inheritaunce in possession: 19 for we wyll not inheret with them beyonde Iordane: for or inheritaunce shal fall vnto vs vpon this syde Iordane Eastwarde. 20 Moses sayde vnto them: Yf ye wil do this, that ye wil harnesse youre selues to the warre before the LORDE, 21 then go ouer Iordane before the LORDE, who so euer is harnessed amonge you, tyll he haue dryuen out his enemies before his face, 22 and vntyll the londe be subdued before the LORDE, then shal ye returne, & be vngiltye before the LORDE, and before Israel, & so shal ye haue this londe in possession before the LORDE. 23 But if ye will not do so, beholde, ye shal offende agaynst the LORDE, and be sure, that youre synne shal fynde you out. 24 Buylde cities now therfore for youre children, and shepefoldes and stalles for youre shepe and catell, and do as ye haue spoken. 25 The childre of Gad, & the childre of Ruben sayde vnto Moses: Thy seruauntes shal do as my lorde hath comaunded. 26 Oure children, wyues, substaunce, & all or catell, shal be in ye cities of Gilead. 27 But we yi seruauntes will go all harnessed for the warre vnto battaill before ye LORDE, as my lorde hath saide. 28 The Moses comaunded Eleasar ye prest & Iosua the sonne of Nun, & the chefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, 29 and saide vnto them: Yf the children of Gad & the children of Ruben go ouer Iordane wt you, all prepared to fight before the LORDE, & whan the londe is subdued vnto you, the geue them the londe of Gilead in possessio. 30 But yf they go not ouer with you in harnes, then shal they inheret wt you in ye lode of Canaa. 31 The children of Gad and the children of Rube answered, & sayde: As ye LORDE hath spoken vnto yi seruauntes, so wyll we do: 32 we wil go harnessed before the LORDE in to ye lade of Canaan, and possesse oure enheritaunce on this syde Iordane. 33 So Moses gaue vnto ye children of Gad and to the children of Ruben, and to the halfe trybe of Manasse the sonne of Ioseph, ye kyngdome of Sihon kynge of the Amorites and the kyngdome of Og the kynge of Basan, the londe with the cities therof in all ye coastes of ye countre rounde aboute. 34 The ye children of Gad buylded Dibon, Araroth, Aroer, Atroth, 35 Sophan, Iaeser, & Iegabeha, 36 Bethnimra, & Betharan, stronge fenced cities, & shepe foldes. 37 The children of Ruben buylded He?bo, Eleale, Kiriathaim, 38 Nebo, Baal Meon, & turned ye names, & Sibamas & gaue names vnto ye cities which they buylded. 39 And ye children of Machir the sonne of Manasse wente in to Gilead, & conquered it, and droue out the Amorites yt were therin. 40 Then Moses gaue Gilead vnto Machir ye sonne of Manasse, & he dwelt therin. 41 Iair ye sonne of Manasse, wente and conquered the vyllagies therof, and called them Hauoth Iair. 42 Nobah wente, and coquered Kenath, with the townes belonginge therto, and called it Nobah, after his awne name.
• Deut 33:13-17 : 13 And to Ioseph he sayde: His londe lieth in the blessynge of the LORDE, there are noble frutes of heauen, of the dew, and of the depe that lyeth beneth: 14 There are noble frutes of the increase of the Sonne, and noble rype frutes of ye monethes: 15 And of ye toppes of the mountaynes of olde, and of the hilles allwaye, 16 and of the noble frutes of ye earth, and of the fulnesse therof. The good will of him that dwelleth in the busshe, come vpon the heade of Ioseph, and vpon ye toppe of his heade that was separated fro amonge his brethren. 17 His bewtye is as a firstborne oxe, and his hornes are as ye hornes of an Vnicorne: with the same shal he pusshe the nacions together, euen vnto the endes of the worlde. These are the thousandes of Ephraim, and the thousandes of Manasse.
• Josh 16:1-9 : 1 And the lot fell vnto the children of Ephraim fro Iordane ouer agaynst Iericho, vnto the water on the east syde of Iericho, and the wyldernesse, yt goeth vp from Iericho thorow the mountayne of Bethel, 2 and commeth out from Bethel vnto Lus, and goeth thorow the coast of Arciataroth, 3 and stretcheth downe westwarde vnto ye coaste of Iaphleti to ye border of the lower Bethoron, and vnto Gaser: and the ende therof is by the greate see. 4 This the children of Ioseph (Manasses & Ephraim) receaued to enheritaunce. 5 The Border of the children of Ephraim amonge their kynreds of their enheritaunce from the east, was Ataroth Adar vnto the vpper Bethoron, 6 & goeth out westwarde by Michmethath that lyeth towarde the north, there fetcheth it a compasse towarde the east syde of the cite Thaenath Silo, and goeth there thorow from the east vnto Ianoha, 7 and commeth downe from Ianoha vnto Ataroth and Naaratha, and bordreth on Iericho, and goeth out at Iordane. 8 From Thapuah goeth it westwarde vnto Naalkama, and the out goinge of it is at the see. This is the enheritaunce of the trybe of the children of Ephraim amonge their kynreds. 9 And all the borders, cities with their vyllages of the childre of Ephraim laye scatred amonge the enheritaunce of the children of Manasse. 10 And they droue not out ye Cananites, which dwelt at Gaser. So ye Cananites remayned amoge Ephraim vnto this daye, and became tributaries.
• Josh 17:14-17 : 14 Then spake the children of Ioseph vnto Iosua, and sayde: Wherfore hast thou geue me but one porcion and one meetlyne of enheritaunce, and I am yet a greate people, as the LORDE hath blessed me so largely? 15 Then sayde Iosua vnto them: For so moch as thou art a greate people, go vp therfore into ye wodd, and make thy selfe rowme there in the londe of the Pheresites and Raphaim, seynge mout Ephraim is to narowe for the. 16 Then sayde the children of Ioseph: We shal not be able to attayne vnto the mountaynes, for there are yron charettes amonge all the Cananites, that dwell in the londe of Emek, by whom lyeth Beth Sean and the vyllages therof, and Iesrael in Emek. 17 Iosua sayde vnto the house of Ioseph, euen to Ephraim and Manasses: Thou art a greate people, & for so moch as thou art so greate, thou must not haue one lot,
• Ps 1:1-3 : 1 O blessed is ye man, yt goeth not in the councell of ye vngodly: yt abydeth not in the waye off synners, & sytteth not in ye seate of the scornefull. 2 But delyteth in the lawe of ye LORDE, & exercyseth himself in his lawe both daye and night. 3 Soch a ma is like a tre plated by ye watersyde, yt brigeth forth his frute in due season. His leeues shal not fall off, ad loke what soeuer he doth, it shal prospere.
• Ps 128:1 : 1 Blessed are all they that feare the LORDE, & walke in his wayes.
• Ps 128:3 : 3 Thy wife shalbe as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house.
• Ezek 19:11 : 11 hir stalkes were so stronge, that men might haue made staues therof for officers: she grew so hie in hir stalkes. So when men sawe that she exceaded ye heith and multitude of hir braunches,
• Gen 30:22-24 : 22 Neuertheles God thought vpo Rachel, and herde her, and made her frutefull. 23 Then she conceaued, and bare a sonne, and sayde: God hath taken awaye my rebuke, 24 and she called him Ioseph, and sayde: God geue me yet another sonne.