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Genesis 47:9

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.

KJV

respondit : Dies peregrinationis meæ centum triginta annorum sunt, parvi et mali, et non pervenerunt usque ad dies patrum meorum quibus peregrinati sunt.

Vulgate

καὶ εἶπεν Ἰακὼβ τῷ Φαραώ Αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἐτῶν τῆς ζωῆς μου ἃς παροικῶ ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα ἔτη· μικραὶ καὶ πονηραὶ γεγόνασιν αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἐτῶν τῆς ζωῆς μου· οὐκ ἀφίκοντο εἰς τὰς ἡμέρας τῶν ἐτῶν τῆς ζωῆς τῶν πατέρων μου, ἃς ἡμέρας παρῴκησαν.

LXX

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

ASV

וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ אֶל פַּרְעֹ֔ה יְמֵי֙ שְׁנֵ֣י מְגוּרַ֔/י שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וּ/מְאַ֖ת שָׁנָ֑ה מְעַ֣ט וְ/רָעִ֗ים הָיוּ֙ יְמֵי֙ שְׁנֵ֣י חַיַּ֔/י וְ/לֹ֣א הִשִּׂ֗יגוּ אֶת יְמֵי֙ שְׁנֵי֙ חַיֵּ֣י אֲבֹתַ֔/י בִּ/ימֵ֖י מְגוּרֵי/הֶֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הֶם֙
hm
noun · 11×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יַעֲקֹ֖ב
y'qb
proper_noun · 346×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 50×
מְעַ֣ט
m't
noun · 101×
מֵא֖וֹת
m'vt
adjective · 581×
פַּרְעֹ֔ה
pr'h
proper_noun · 267×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים
shlshym
adjective · 174×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant; calling the signs spiritual, because they are the works of the Spirit alone, human effort contributing nothing to the working such wonders. And intending to discourse concerning them, first, as I said, he lays down the difference between soothsaying and prophecy, thus saying, You know that when you were…
1. Many prophets and righteous men (it is said) have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them. Matthew 13:17 Did then those righteous men know all the things to come? Yea, most certainly. For if because of the weakness of those who were not able to receive Him, the Son was not revealed, — …
1. There are two kinds of consolation, apparently opposed to one another, but yet contributing great strength each to the other; both of which he has here put forward. The one is when we say that persons have suffered much: for the soul is refreshed, when it has many witnesses of its own sufferings, and this he introduced above, saying, Call to mind the former days, in which af…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 29:15 — 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.
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 2Chr 24:15 — But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
  • Deut 34:7 — And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
  • Eccl 2:3 — I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under t
  • Eccl 6:3 — 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
  • Exod 6:4 — 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.
  • Exod 7:7 — And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
  • Gen 11:11 — And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
  • Gen 11:24 — And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
  • Gen 25:7 — And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
  • Gen 35:28 — And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
  • Gen 47:28 — And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
  • Gen 50:26 — So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
  • Heb 11:9 — By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
  • Heb 11:13 — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart
  • Jas 4:14 — 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.
  • Job 8:8 — For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
  • Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
  • Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
  • Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
  • Job 42:16 — After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
  • Josh 24:29 — 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.
  • Ps 39:5 — 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.
  • Ps 39:5 — 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.
  • Ps 39:12 — 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.
  • Ps 39:12 — 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.
  • Ps 90:10 — The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
  • Ps 119:19 — I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
  • Ps 119:19 — I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
  • Ps 119:54 — Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
  • Ps 119:54 — Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.