What Does Genesis 50:5 Mean?

“My father”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“made me swear”

to seven oneself, i.e., swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

“saying”

to say (used with great latitude)

“Lo”

lo!

i

“I die”

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

“in my grave”

a sepulcher

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“which I have digged”

properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open

“for me in the land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“of Canaan”

kenaan, a son a ham; also the country inhabited by him

there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence

“I pray thee and bury”

to inter

at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive

“Now therefore let me go up”

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction

“I pray thee and bury”

to inter

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“My father”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“and I will come again”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);