Genesis 50:5
Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data
"My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
שָׁבַע
shâbaʻ
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
שְׁאוֹל
shᵉʼôwl
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
חָפַר
châphar
properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
כְּנַעַן
Kᵉnaʻan
Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
פָּלַל
pâlal
to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Key Terms in This Verse
חָפַר châphar
properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
Study H2658 →שָׁבַע shâbaʻ
to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
Study H7650 →שְׁאוֹל shᵉʼôwl
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
Study H7585 →פָּלַל pâlal
to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray
Study H6419 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →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...
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth...
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is ...
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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