Genesis 50:2
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יוֹסֵף
Yôwçêph
Joseph, the name of seven Israelites
צָוָה
tsâvâh
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
רָפָא
râphâʼ
properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
חָנַט
chânaṭ
to spice; by implication, to embalm; also to ripen
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
רָפָא
râphâʼ
properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
חָנַט
chânaṭ
to spice; by implication, to embalm; also to ripen
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
Key Terms in This Verse
רָפָא râphâʼ
properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
Study H7495 →רָפָא râphâʼ
properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure
Study H7495 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
Study H3478 →Cross References
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apo...
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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