King James Version
Genesis 47:21 in the King James Version says “And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 47 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.”
Genesis 47:21 · KJV
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. priests: or, princes
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“And as for the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“he removed”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“them to cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“of the borders”
H1366properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e., (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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