Genesis 41:35

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under Pharaoh's authority, and let them keep food in the cities.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִקְבְּצ֗וּ אֶת־כָּל־אֹ֙כֶל֙ הַשָּׁנִ֣ים הַטֹּבֹ֔ת הַבָּאֹ֖ת הָאֵ֑לֶּה וְיִצְבְּרוּ־בָ֞ר תַּ֧חַת יַד־פַּרְעֹ֛ה אֹ֥כֶל בֶּעָרִ֖ים וְשָׁמָֽרוּ׃

Transliteration

wə-yiqbəṣû ʾet-all-ʾōḵel the-šānîm the-ṭōḇōt the-bāʾōt the-these; wə-yiṣbərû-ḇār under hand-parʿōh ʾōḵel in-the-cities wə-šāmārû.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yiqbəṣû*: conjunction + 3rd masculine plural imperfect, Qal - and let them gather
• *ʾōḵel*: masculine singular noun - food
• *šānîm*: feminine plural noun with definite article - the years
• *ṭōḇōt*: feminine plural adjective with definite article - the good
• *bāʾōt*: feminine plural participle with definite article, Qal - the coming
• *wə-yiṣbərû*: conjunction + 3rd masculine plural imperfect, Qal - and let them store up
• *ḇār*: masculine singular noun - grain
• *parʿōh*: proper noun - Pharaoh
• *wə-šāmārû*: conjunction + 3rd common plural perfect, Qal - and let them keep

Word Meanings

• *yiqbəṣû*: let them gather/let them collect/let them assemble
• *ʾōḵel*: food/grain/provisions
• *ṭōḇōt*: good/pleasant/agreeable
• *bāʾōt*: coming/arriving
• *yiṣbərû*: let them store up/let them heap up/let them pile
• *ḇār*: grain/corn
• *šāmārû*: let them keep/let them preserve/let them guard

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Let them gather all the food from these good years that are coming and store up grain under Pharaoh’s authority for food in the cities, and let them guard it.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  and let them gather all the foode of these good yeres that come ad lay vp corne vnder the power of Pharo: that there may be foode in the cities

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and gather all ye foode yt shal come of the plenteous yeares, that they maye laye vp corne vnder Pharaos power for sustenaunce in the cities,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Also let them gather all the foode of these good yeeres that come, and lay vp corne vnder the hand of Pharaoh for foode, in the cities, and let them keepe it.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And let them gather all the foode of these good yeres that come: and laye vp corne vnder the hande of Pharao, and let them kepe foode in the cities.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh -- food in the cities; and they have kept `it',

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 41:48-49 : 48 So he gathered up all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them. 49 Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
• Gen 41:56 : 56 The famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. The famine became severe in the land of Egypt.
• Gen 45:6-7 : 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
• Exod 4:13 : 13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray, by the hand of him whom you will send.