And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
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Gill's Exposition
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn,.... All the neighbouring nations (Syria, Arabia, Palestine, Canaan, &c.), when they heard there was corn there for money, came from all…
- Joseph Was Exalted 1. יאר ye'or, “river, canal,” mostly applied to the Nile. Some suppose the word to be Coptic. 2. אחוּ 'āchû, “sedge, reed-grass, marsh-grass.” This word is probably Coptic. 8.…
Observe here, I. The building of Joseph's family in the birth of two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, Gen 41:50-52. In the names he gave them, he owned the divine Providence giving this happy turn to his…
Cambridge Bible
Ephraim For the Hebrew word to be fruitful, cf. Gen 28:3; Gen 35:11; Gen 48:4. There is a play on the resemblance in the sound of the name to the Hebrew root (prh) meaning "fruitfulness." The same…
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