King James Version
Genesis 50:9 in the King James Version says “And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 50 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.”
Genesis 50:9 · KJV
And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan. Abelmizraim: that is, The mourning of the Egyptians
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“And there went up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“with him both chariots”
H7393a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e., the upper millstone
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“and horsemen”
H6571a steed (as stretched out to a vehicle, not single nor for mounting ); also (by implication) a driver (in a chariot), i.e., (collectively) cavalry
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“company”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
“great”
H3515heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
“and it was a very”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
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