Genesis 47:9
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יַעֲקֹב
Yaʻăqôb
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
פַּרְעֹה
Parʻôh
Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
מָגוּר
mâgûwr
a temporary abode; by extension, a permanent residence
מֵאָה
mêʼâh
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
שְׁלוֹשִׁים
shᵉlôwshîym
thirty; or (ordinal) thirtieth
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
נָשַׂג
nâsag
to reach (literally or figuratively)
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
מָגוּר
mâgûwr
a temporary abode; by extension, a permanent residence
Key Terms in This Verse
חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →Cross References
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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