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Genesis 47:9 — King James Version← Study notes

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.


Genesis 47:9Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Genesis 47:925 words
וַיֹּאמֶרwayōʾmerAnd say
יַעֲקֹבyaʿăqōvJacob
אֶלʾelNear
פַּרְעֹהparəʿōhParoh
יְמֵיyəmêDay
שְׁנֵיšənêYear
מְגוּרַיməgûrayTemporary abode
שְׁלֹשִׁיםšəlōšîmThirty
וּמְאַתûməʾatAnd hundred
שָׁנָהšānāhYear
מְעַטməʿaṭLittle
וְרָעִיםwərāʿîmAnd bad
הָיוּhāyûExist
יְמֵיyəmêDay
שְׁנֵיšənêYear
חַיַּיḥayayAlive
וְלֹאwəlōʾAnd not
הִשִּׂיגוּhiśîgûReach
אֶתʾet
יְמֵיyəmêDay
שְׁנֵיšənêYear
חַיֵּיḥayêAlive
אֲבֹתַיʾăvōtayFather
בִּימֵיbîmêIn day
מְגוּרֵיהֶםməgûrêhemTemporary abode
Words read right to left. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Word-by-word meanings

וַיֹּאמֶרwayōʾmerAnd say
יַעֲקֹבyaʿăqōvJacob
אֶלʾelNear
פַּרְעֹהparəʿōhParoh
יְמֵיyəmêDay
שְׁנֵיšənêYear
מְגוּרַיməgûrayTemporary abode
שְׁלֹשִׁיםšəlōšîmThirty
וּמְאַתûməʾatAnd hundred
שָׁנָהšānāhYear
מְעַטməʿaṭLittle
וְרָעִיםwərāʿîmAnd bad
הָיוּhāyûExist
יְמֵיyəmêDay
שְׁנֵיšənêYear
חַיַּיḥayayAlive
וְלֹאwəlōʾAnd not
הִשִּׂיגוּhiśîgûReach
אֶתʾetdirect object marker (no translation)
יְמֵיyəmêDay
שְׁנֵיšənêYear
חַיֵּיḥayêAlive
אֲבֹתַיʾăvōtayFather
בִּימֵיbîmêIn day
מְגוּרֵיהֶםməgûrêhemTemporary abode

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