King James Version
Genesis 49:2 in the King James Version says “Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 49 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.”
Genesis 49:2 · KJV
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. thou shalt: Heb. do not thou excel he went: or, my couch is gone
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“and hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“ye sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“unto Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“your father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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