The Meaning of Genesis 46:33 Explained

Genesis 46:33

KJV: And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

YLT: And it hath come to pass when Pharaoh calleth for you, and hath said, What are your works?

Darby: And it shall come to pass that when Pharaoh shall call you and say, What is your occupation?

ASV: And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh  shall call  you, and shall say,  What [is] your occupation? 

What does Genesis 46:33 Mean?

Context Summary

Genesis 46:28-34 - Pharaoh Welcome's Joseph's Relatives
What a meeting between father and son! If the old man were sitting in the corner of the lumbering wagon, weary with the long journey, how he must have started up when they said, "Joseph is coming!" What pathos there is in the expression, "wept a good while," as though the long-pent-up streams took a long time to exhaust themselves. Had Joseph been less noble he might have shrunk from introducing his lowly relatives to the mighty Pharaoh! But such thoughts were submerged in the great love which claimed that withered, aged, halting man as his father. Let us never be ashamed of our Savior, who has done more for us than even Jacob for his sons. This confession that the days of his pilgrimage had been few and evil is set to a sad minor chord; and to the superficial gaze Esau had enjoyed a much more prosperous career; but when Jacob stood before Pharaoh the mighty monarch recognized his moral supremacy, and bent beneath his benediction. Surely the less is blessed of the greater. Here was the harvest of his tears! [source]

Chapter Summary: Genesis 46

1  Jacob is comforted by God at Beersheba
5  Thence he with his company goes into Egypt
8  The number of his family that went into Egypt
28  Joseph meets Jacob
31  He instructs his brothers how to answer Pharaoh

What do the individual words in Genesis 46:33 mean?

So it shall be when calls you Pharaoh and says what [is] your occupation
וְהָיָ֕ה כִּֽי־ יִקְרָ֥א לָכֶ֖ם פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְאָמַ֖ר מַה־ ؟ מַּעֲשֵׂיכֶֽם

וְהָיָ֕ה  So  it  shall  be 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
יִקְרָ֥א  calls 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: קָרָא  
Sense: to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim.
פַּרְעֹ֑ה  Pharaoh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: פַּרְעֹה  
Sense: the common title of the king of Egypt.
וְאָמַ֖ר  and  says 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
מַה־  what  [is] 
Parse: Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
؟ מַּעֲשֵׂיכֶֽם  your  occupation 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: מַעֲשֶׂה  
Sense: deed, work.

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