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Genesis 50:2–3

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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
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  1. 2 Chronicles 16:14Rank 1 from verse 2
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    14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

  2. Genesis 50:26Rank 2 from verse 2
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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.

  3. John 19:39–40Rank 3 from verse 2
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    39And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

    40Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

  4. Mark 16:1Rank 4 from verse 2
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    1AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

  5. Matthew 26:12Rank 5 from verse 2
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    12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

From verse 3

  1. Deuteronomy 34:8Rank 1 from verse 3
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    8¶ And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

  2. Numbers 20:29Rank 2 from verse 3
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    29And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

  3. Deuteronomy 21:13Rank 3 from verse 3
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    13And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

  4. Genesis 50:10Rank 4 from verse 3
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    10And 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.

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Genesis 50:2

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

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COMBINED MEANING

embalmed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of embalm, meaning to preserve a dead body.

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

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Genesis 50:3

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fulfilled

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Filled up, completed, accomplished, performed, satisfied, expired, or brought fully to the appointed result, measure, time, or realization.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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embalmed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of embalm, meaning to preserve a dead body.

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

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mourned

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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of mourn, meaning to grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1AND Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

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3And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

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4And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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