Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Genesis 47:15

Context
NETBible

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians 1  came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die 2  before your very eyes because our money has run out?”

XREF

Ge 47:18,19,24; Jud 8:5,8; 1Sa 21:3; 1Sa 25:8; Ps 37:3; Isa 33:16; Mt 6:11

NET © Notes

tn Heb “all Egypt.” The expression is a metonymy and refers to all the people of Egypt.

tn The imperfect verbal form has a deliberative force here.



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