King James Version
Psalms 105:17 in the King James Version says “He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 105 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:”
Psalms 105:17 · KJV
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: he: Heb. his soul came into iron
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“a man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“who was sold”
H4376to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
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