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Genesis 47:8–9

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And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
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  1. Job 14:1Rank 1 from verse 9
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    1MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

  2. Psalms 39:12Rank 2 from verse 9
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    12Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  3. Genesis 35:28Rank 3 from verse 9
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    28And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

  4. Psalms 39:5Rank 4 from verse 9
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    5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

  5. 1 Peter 2:11Rank 5 from verse 9
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    11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  6. Deuteronomy 34:7Rank 6 from verse 9
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    7¶ And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

  7. Exodus 6:4Rank 7 from verse 9
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    4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

  8. Exodus 7:7Rank 8 from verse 9
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    7And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

  9. Genesis 50:26Rank 9 from verse 9
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    26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

  10. James 4:14Rank 10 from verse 9
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    14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  11. Joshua 24:29Rank 11 from verse 9
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    29¶ And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

  12. Genesis 11:11Rank 12 from verse 9
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    11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

  13. Genesis 11:24–25Rank 13 from verse 9
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    24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

    25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

  14. Genesis 25:7–8Rank 14 from verse 9
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    7And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

    8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

  15. Genesis 47:28Rank 15 from verse 9
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    28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

  16. Hebrews 11:9–16Rank 16 from verse 9
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    9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

    10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

    12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

    14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

    15And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

    16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

  17. Job 42:16–17Rank 17 from verse 9
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    16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

    17So Job died, being old and full of days.

  18. Job 8:8–9Rank 18 from verse 9
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    8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

  19. Psalms 119:19Rank 19 from verse 9
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    19I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

  20. Psalms 119:54Rank 20 from verse 9
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    54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

  21. 1 Chronicles 29:15Rank 21 from verse 9
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    15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

  22. 2 Samuel 19:32–35Rank 22 from verse 9
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    32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

    33And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.

    34And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

    35I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

  23. Genesis 5:27Rank 23 from verse 9
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    27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

  24. Hebrews 13:14Rank 24 from verse 9
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    14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

  25. Psalms 89:47–48Rank 25 from verse 9
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    47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

    48What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

  26. Psalms 90:3–12Rank 26 from verse 9
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    3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

    4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

    5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

    6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

    7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

    8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

    9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

    10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

    11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

    12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

  27. 2 Corinthians 5:6Rank 27 from verse 9
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    6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

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Genesis 47:8

COMBINED MEANING

Pharaoh

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

old

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1. Advanced in age or existing for a long time. 2. Of the stated or specified age. 3. Ancient, former, previous, or worn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

art

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1. The second-person singular present form of be: are, when one person is addressed. 2. Skill, craft, or skilled workmanship used to make or prepare something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Genesis 47:9

COMBINED MEANING

Pharaoh

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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pilgrimage

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A journey or sojourn, especially one’s course of life as a stranger or traveller.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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thirty

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The number equal to three tens, following twenty-nine and preceding thirty-one.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

attained

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Past-tense or past-participial form of attain (to reach, arrive at, or obtain by movement, effort, or progress).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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47:1THEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

47:2And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

47:3And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

47:4They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

47:5And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

47:6The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

47:7And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

47:8And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

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47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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47:10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

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