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Genesis 46 — Sermon Preparation
Jacob leads his entire household, seventy people in all, down to Egypt; they settle in the region of Goshen. Below is a research summary for Genesis 46, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Genesis 46 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַעֲקֹב | Yaʻăqôb | H3290 | 15 | Jaakob |
| יוֹסֵף | Yôwçêph | H3130 | 8 | Joseph |
| מִצְרַיִם | Mitsrayim | H4714 | 9 | Mitsrajim |
| נֶפֶשׁ | nephesh | H5315 | 8 | breathing creature, animal |
| יָלַד | yâlad | H3205 | 7 | bear young, beget |
| בַּת | bath | H1323 | 7 | daughter |
| גֹּשֶׁן | Gôshen | H1657 | 4 | Goshen |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Genesis 46, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We have here a particular account of Jacob's family. Though the fulfilling of promises is always sure, yet it is often slow. It was now 215 years since God had promised Abraham to make of him a great nation, ch. 12:2; yet that branch of his seed, to which the promise was made sure, had only increased to seventy, of whom this particular account is kept, to show the power of God in making these seventy become a vast multitude.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Genesis 46:5–27 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Beersheba 2— Gen 46:1
- Egypt— Gen 46:1
- Canaan— Gen 46:12
- Paddan-aram— Gen 46:15
- Heliopolis— Gen 46:20
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