וְאֵ֛ת שַׂ֥ר הָאֹפִ֖ים תָּלָ֑ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר פָּתַ֛ר לָהֶ֖ם יוֹסֵֽף
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 40:22
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 40:22 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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King James Version Public Domain
But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
but the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted for them.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
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King James Version Public Domain
But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
But he hanged the chiefe baker, as Ioseph had interpreted vnto them.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made a. great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the chief of the bakers he hath hanged, as Joseph hath interpreted to them;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the chief of the bakers he has hanged, as Joseph has interpreted to them;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
But he hanged the chief of the bakers, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
but the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted for them.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he hanged the chief of the bakers, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
But he hanged the chief baker just as Joseph had said when he interpreted their dreams.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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פָּתַ֛ר
pâthar
H6622
“to interpret”
Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 9× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 40:8
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Qal
- Form
- Perfect
- Person
- 3rd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
(Qal) to interpret (dreams)
- וְאֵ֛ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- שַׂ֥ר sar H8269 “prince of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הָאֹפִ֖ים ʼâphâh H644 “the · baking” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- תָּלָ֑ה tâlâh H8518 “to hang” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “like/as · which” Preposition + Particle, Relative
- פָּתַ֛ר pâthar H6622 “to interpret” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- יוֹסֵֽף Yôwçêph H3130 “Joseph” Noun, Proper
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is פָּתַ֛ר to interpret H6622 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
פָּתַ֛ר to interpret H6622 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- הָאֹפִ֖ים Qal · Participle Active
- תָּלָ֑ה Qal · Perfect
- פָּתַ֛ר Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 8 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
9Topical passages linked to Genesis 40:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 40:19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
- Genesis 40:8 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
- Genesis 41:11–13 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
- Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
- Daniel 2:19–23 Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
- Daniel 2:30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
- Daniel 5:12 because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
- Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὁ δέ ἀρχισιτοποιός κράννυμι καθά συνκρίνω αὐτός ιωσηφ
And he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph, interpreted to them.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיָת רַב נַחְתּוֹמֵי צְלָב כְּמָא דִּי פָשַׁר לְהוֹן יוֹסֵף
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיַת רַב נַחְתּוֹמֵי צְלָב דְיָעַט לְמִקְטְלֵיהּ הֵיכְמָא דְפָשַׁר לְהוֹם יוֹסֵף
But the chief baker he hanged, because he had taken counsel to kill him, even as Joseph had expounded to them.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pâthar (“to interpret”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to interpret” (pâthar) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Genesis 40:8 shares the word «to interpret» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «הָאֹפִ֖ים» is Qal Participle Active. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 40:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).