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Genesis 41:37

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¶ And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
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  1. Acts 7:10Rank 1 from verse 37
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    10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  2. 1 Kings 21:2Rank 2 from verse 37
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    2And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

  3. 2 Samuel 3:36Rank 3 from verse 37
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    36And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

  4. Joshua 22:30Rank 4 from verse 37
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    30¶ And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.

  5. Proverbs 10:20Rank 5 from verse 37
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    20The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

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Genesis 41:37

COMBINED MEANING

good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

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Pharaoh

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The royal title used for the king of Egypt, applied to successive Egyptian rulers in the biblical record.

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36And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

37¶ And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

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38And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

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