Genesis 48:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then Israel said vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your fathers.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֔ף הִנֵּ֥ה אָנֹכִ֖י מֵ֑ת וְהָיָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ עִמָּכֶ֔ם וְהֵשִׁ֣יב אֶתְכֶ֔ם אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer yiśrāʾēl to-yôsēp̄ hinnēh ʾānōkî mēt and wĕhāyāh ʾĕlōhîm with ʿimmākem and wĕhēšîb ʾetkem to-ʾereṣ ʾăbōtêkem

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun, masculine singular - Israel
• *yôsēp̄*: proper noun, masculine singular - Joseph
• *hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold
• *ʾānōkî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *mēt*: Qal participle, masculine singular - dying
• *wĕhāyāh*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and will be
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - God
• *ʿimmākem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - with you
• *wĕhēšîb*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and will bring back
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
• *ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
• *ʾăbōtêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your fathers

Word Meanings

• *hinnēh*: behold/look/here
• *ʾānōkî mēt*: I am dying/about to die/will die
• *wĕhāyāh*: and will be/shall be/and may be
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/divine being (grammatically plural form used for singular deity)
• *wĕhēšîb*: and will bring back/return/restore
• *ʾereṣ ʾăbōtêkem*: land of your fathers/ancestors/forefathers

Referenced Verses

• Gen 46:4 : 4 I wil go downe with thee into Egypt, and I will also bring thee vp againe, and Ioseph shal put his hand vpon thine eyes.
• Gen 50:24 : 24 And Ioseph sayd vnto his brethren, I am ready to dye, and God will surely visite you, and bring you out of this land, vnto ye land which hee sware vnto Abraha, vnto Izhak, and vnto Iaakob.
• Gen 26:3 : 3 Dwell in this lande, and I will be with thee, and will blesse thee: for to thee, and to thy seede I will giue all these countreys: and I will performe the othe which I sware vnto Abraham thy father.
• Gen 28:15 : 15 And lo, I am with thee, and wil keepe thee whithersoeuer thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this lande: for I will not forsake thee vntill I haue performed that, that I haue promised thee.
• Gen 37:1 : 1 Iaakob nowe dwelt in the lande, wherein his father was a stranger, in the lande of Canaan.
• Gen 12:5 : 5 Then Abram tooke Sarai his wife, & Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they possessed, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, & they departed, to goe to the land of Canaan: & to the land of Canaan they came.
• Gen 15:14 : 14 Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
• Deut 1:1-9 : 1 These bee the wordes which Moses spake vnto all Israel, on this side Iorden in the wildernesse, in the plaine, ouer against the red Sea, betweene Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, & Di-zahab. 2 There are eleuen dayes iourney from Horeb vnto Kadesh-barnea, by the way of mout Seir. 3 And it came to passe in the first day of the eleuenth moneth, in the fourtieth yeere that Moses spake vnto the children of Israel according vnto all that the Lord had giuen him in commandement vnto them, 4 After that he had slaine Sihon the king of the Amorites which dwelt in Heshbon, & Og king of Bashan, which dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei. 5 On this side Iorden in the lande of Moab began Moses to declare this lawe, saying, 6 The Lord our God spake vnto vs in Horeb, saying, Ye haue dwelt long ynough in this mount, 7 Turne you and depart, and goe vnto the mountaine of the Amorites, and vnto all places neere thereunto in the plaine, in the mountaine, or in the valley: both Southwarde, and to the Sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and vnto Lebanon: euen vnto the great riuer, the riuer Perath. 8 Beholde, I haue set the land before you: go in and possesse that land which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue vnto them and to their seede after them. 9 And I spake vnto you the same time, saying, I am not able to beare you my selfe alone: 10 The Lord your God hath multiplied you: and beholde, ye are this day as the starres of heauen in nomber: 11 (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you, as he hath promised you) 12 Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife? 13 Bring you men of wisedome and of vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you: 14 Then ye answered me and said, The thing is good that thou hast commanded vs to doe. 15 So I tooke the chiefe of your tribes wise and knowen men, & made them rulers ouer you, captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, and captaines ouer fiftie, and captaines ouer tenne, and officers among your tribes. 16 And I charged your iudges that same time, saying, Heare the controuersies betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shal haue no respect of person in iudgement, but shall heare the small aswell as the great: yee shall not feare the face of man: for the iudgemet is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring vnto me, and I will heare it. 18 Also I commaunded you the same time all the things which ye should doe. 19 Then we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wildernesse (as yee haue seene) by the way of the mountaine of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commaunded vs: and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I saide vnto you, Yee are come vnto the mountaine of the Amorites, which the Lorde our God doeth giue vnto vs. 21 Beholde, the Lord thy God hath layde the land before thee: go vp and possesse it, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath saide vnto thee: feare not, neither be discouraged. 22 Then ye came vnto me euery one, and said, We wil send men before vs, to search vs out the land & to bring vs word againe, what way we must go vp by, & vnto what cities we shall come. 23 So the saying pleased me well, and I tooke twelue men of you, of euery tribe one. 24 Who departed, and went vp into the mountaine, and came vnto the riuer Eshcol, and searched out the land. 25 And tooke of the fruite of the land in their hands, and brought it vnto vs, and brought vs worde againe, and sayd, It is a good land, which the Lord our God doeth giue vs. 26 Notwithstanding, ye would not go vp, but were disobedient vnto the commaundement of the Lord your God, 27 And murmured in your tentes, & sayd, Because the Lorde hated vs, therefore hath hee brought vs out of the land of Egypt, to deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorites, and to destroy vs. 28 Whither shal we go vp? our brethren haue discouraged our hearts, saying, The people is greater, and taller then we: the cities are great and walled vp to heauen: and moreouer we haue seene the sonnes of the Anakims there. 29 But I sayd vnto you, Dread not, nor be afrayd of them. 30 The Lord your God, who goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did vnto you in Egypt before your eyes, 31 And in the wildernesse, where thou hast seene how the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doeth beare his sonne, in all the way which ye haue gone, vntill ye came vnto this place. 32 Yet for all this ye did not beleeue the Lord your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tentes in, in fire by night, that ye might see what way to goe, and in a cloude by day. 34 Then the Lorde heard the voyce of your wordes, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this froward generation, see that good land, which I sware to giue vnto your fathers, 36 Saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh: he shall see it, and to him will I giue the land that he hath troden vpon, and to his children, because he hath constantly followed the Lord. 37 Also the Lorde was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not goe in thither, 38 But Ioshua the sonne of Nun which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: incourage him: for he shal cause Israel to inherite it. 39 Moreouer, your children, which ye sayd should be a praye, and your sonnes, which in that day had no knowledge betweene good and euill, they shall go in thither, and vnto them wil I giue it, and they shall possesse it. 40 But as for you, turne backe, and take your iourney into the wildernesse by the way of the red Sea. 41 Then ye answered and sayd vnto me, We haue sinned against the Lord, we wil go vp, and fight, according to all that the Lorde our God hath commaunded vs: and ye armed you euery man to the warre, and were ready to goe vp into the mountaine. 42 But the Lord said vnto me, Say vnto them, Goe not vp, neither fight, (for I am not among you) least ye fall before your enemies. 43 And when I told you, ye would not heare, but rebelled against the commaundement of the Lord, and were presumptuous, and went vp into the mountaine. 44 Then the Amorites which dwelt in that mountaine came out against you, and chased you (as bees vse to doe) and destroied you in Seir, euen vnto Hormah. 45 And when ye came againe, ye wept before the Lord, but the Lorde would not heare your voyce, nor incline his eares vnto you. 46 So ye abode in Kadesh a long time, according to the time that ye had remained before.
• Deut 31:8 : 8 And the Lorde him selfe doeth go before thee: he will be with thee: he will not faile thee, neither forsake thee: feare not therefore, nor be discomforted.
• Josh 1:5 : 5 There shall not a man be able to withstande thee all the dayes of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leaue thee, nor forsake thee.
• Josh 1:9 : 9 Haue not I commanded thee, saying, Be strong and of a good courage, feare not, nor be discouraged? for I the Lord thy God will be with thee, whithersoeuer thou goest.
• Josh 3:7 : 7 Then the Lorde saide vnto Ioshua, This day will I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel, which shall knowe, that as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.
• Josh 23:14 : 14 And beholde, this day do I enter into the way of all ye world, & ye know in al your heartes and in all your soules, that nothing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God promised you, but all are come to passe vnto you: nothing hath failed thereof.
• Josh 24:1-9 : 1 And Ioshua assembled againe all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called the Elders of Israel, and their heades, and their iudges, and their officers, and they presented themselues before God. 2 Then Ioshua said vnto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt beyond the flood in olde time, euen Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor, and serued other gods. 3 And I tooke your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seede, and gaue him Izhak. 4 And I gaue vnto Izhak, Iaakob and Esau: and I gaue vnto Esau mount Seir, to possesse it: but Iaakob and his children went downe into Egypt. 5 I sent Moses also & Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out. 6 So I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came vnto the Sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with charets and horsemen vnto the red sea. 7 Then they cryed vnto the Lorde, and he put a darkenesse betweene you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea vpon them, and couered them: so your eyes haue seene what I haue done in Egypt also ye dwelt in the wildernesse a long season. 8 After, I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt beyond Iorden, and they fought with you: but I gaue them into your hand, and ye possessed their countrey, and I destroyed them out of your sight. 9 Also Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab arose and warred against Israel, and sent to call Balaam the sonne of Beor for to curse you, 10 But I would not heare Balaam: therefore he blessed you, and I deliuered you out of his hand. 11 And ye went ouer Iorden, and came vnto Iericho, and the men of Iericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hiuites & the Iebusites, and I deliuered them into your hand. 12 And I sent hornets before you, which cast them out before you, euen the two kings of the Amorites, and not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13 And I haue giuen you a land, wherein ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and yee dwell in them, and eate of the vineyards and oliue trees, which yee planted not. 14 Nowe therefore feare the Lorde, & serue him in vprightnesse and in trueth, and put away the gods, which your fathers serued beyonde the flood and in Egypt, and serue the Lord. 15 And if it seeme euill vnto you to serue the Lorde, choose you this day whome yee will serue, whether the gods which your fathers serued (that were beyond the flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwel: but I & mine house will serue the Lord. 16 Then the people answered and saide, God forbid, that we shoulde forsake the Lord, to serue other gods. 17 For the Lorde our God, he brought vs and our fathers out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserued vs in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whome we came. 18 And the Lorde did cast out before vs all the people, euen the Amorites which dwelt in the lande: therefore will we also serue the Lord, for he is our God. 19 And Ioshua saide vnto the people, Ye can not serue the Lorde: for he is an holie God: he is a ielous God: hee will not pardon your iniquitie nor your sinnes. 20 If yee forsake the Lorde and serue strange gods, then he will returne and bring euill vpon you, and consume you, after that hee hath done you good. 21 And the people saide vnto Ioshua, Nay, but we will serue the Lord. 22 And Ioshua saide vnto the people, Yee are witnesses against your selues, that yee haue chosen you the Lord, to serue him: and they sayd, We are witnesses. 23 Then put away nowe, saide he, the strange gods which are among you, and bowe your hearts vnto the Lord God of Israel. 24 And ye people saide vnto Ioshua, The Lord our God wil we serue, & his voyce wil we obey. 25 So Ioshua made a couenant with the people the same day, and gaue them an ordinance and lawe in Shechem. 26 And Ioshua wrote these woordes in the booke of the Lawe of God, and tooke a great stone, and pitched it there vnder an oke that was in the Sanctuarie of the Lord. 27 And Ioshua saide vnto all the people, Beholde, this stone shall be a witnesse vnto vs: for it hath heard all the wordes of the Lord which he spake with vs: it shall be therefore a witnesse against you, lest yee denie your God. 28 Then Ioshua let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritance. 29 And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lord died, being an hundreth and ten yeeres olde. 30 And they buried him in ye border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the Northside of mount Gaash. 31 And Israel serued the Lorde all the daies of Ioshua, and all the daies of the Elders that ouerliued Ioshua, and which had knowen all the workes of the Lord that he had done for Israel. 32 And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in a parcell of ground which Iaakob bought of the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundreth pieces of siluer, and the children of Ioseph had them in their inheritance. 33 Also Eleazar the sonne of Aaron died, whome they buried in the hill of Phinehas his sonne, which was giuen him in mount Ephraim.
• 1 Kgs 2:2-4 : 2 I go the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and shew thy selfe a man, 3 And take heede to the charge of the Lord thy God, to walke in his wayes, and keepe his statutes, and his commaundements, and his iudgements, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and in euery thing whereunto thou turnest thee, 4 That the Lorde may confirme his worde which hee spake vnto me, saying, If thy sonnes take heede to their way, that they walke before me in trueth, with all their hearts, and with all their soules, thou shalt not (sayd he) want one of thy posteritie vpon the throne of Israel.
• Ps 18:46 : 46 Let the Lorde liue, and blessed be my strength, and the God of my saluation be exalted.
• Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sonne of man, for there is none helpe in him. 4 His breath departeth, and he returneth to his earth: then his thoughtes perish.
• Zech 1:5-6 : 5 your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer? 6 But did not my wordes and my statutes, which I commanded by my seruants ye Prophets, take holde of your fathers? and they returned, and sayd, As the Lord of hostes hath determined to doe vnto vs, according to our owne wayes, and according to our workes, so hath hee dealt with vs.
• Luke 2:29 : 29 Lorde, nowe lettest thou thy seruaunt depart in peace, according to thy woorde,
• Acts 13:36 : 36 Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption.
• 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am nowe readie to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand.
• Heb 7:3 : 3 Without father, without mother, without kinred, and hath neither beginning of his dayes, neither ende of life: but is likened vnto the Sonne of God, and continueth a Priest for euer.
• Heb 7:8 : 8 And here men that die, receiue tithes: but there he receiueth them, of whome it is witnessed, that he liueth.
• Heb 7:23-25 : 23 And among them many were made Priests, because they were not suffered to endure, by the reason of death. 24 But this man, because hee endureth euer, hath a Priesthood, which cannot passe from one to another. 25 Wherefore, hee is able also perfectly to saue them that come vnto God by him, seeing he euer liueth, to make intercession for them.
• 2 Pet 1:14 : 14 Seeing I knowe that the time is at hand that I must lay downe this my tabernacle, euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me.