Genesis 41:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

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פַּרְעֹ֑ה

Parʻôh

H6547

“Pharaoh”

Noun, Proper

Appears 268× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 12:15

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of Egyptian derivation

TWOT: 1825

Pharaoh = "great house" - the common title of the king of Egypt

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 →

12: words
10: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
4 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition
3 particles

Verb forms

דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי Piel · Perfect
עֹשֶׂ֖ה Qal · Participle Active
הֶרְאָ֥ה Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

פַּרְעֹ֑ה Pharaoh H6547 ×2
אֲשֶׁ֥ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 12 Hebrew tokens and 13 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

Topical passages linked to Genesis 41:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 41:25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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.

Hebrew Genesis 41:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

ה֣וּא הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי אֶל פַּרְעֹ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֧ר הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים עֹשֶׂ֖ה הֶרְאָ֥ה אֶת פַּרְעֹֽה

That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 41:28 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ δέ ῥῆμα ὅς εἶπον φαραώ ὅσος ὁ θεός ποιέω δεικνύω ὁ φαραώ

And as for the word which I have told Pharao, whatever God intends to do, he has shown to Pharao:

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

הוּא פִתְגָּמָא דִּי מַלֵּילִית עִם פַּרְעֹה דִּי יְיָ עָתִיד לְמֶעְבַּד אַחֲזֵי לְפַרְעֹה

(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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

הוּא פִּתְגָמָא דְמַלֵילִית עִם פַּרְעה מַה דַיְיָ עָתִיד לְמֶעֱבַד אַחְמֵי יַת פַּרְעה

This is the word that I speak to Pharoh: what the Lord is about to do He showeth Pharoh.

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.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 41:28 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.

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John Gill's Exposition

And the plenty shall not be known in the land, by reason of that famine following,.... That is, before it would be over; otherwise the former plenty was in some measure known by the stores of provisions laid up in the seven years of it, and which were brought forth when the famine became very pressing; but by that time, and before the seven years of it were ended, there were no traces of the foregoing plenty to be observed:

for it shall be very grievous; as it was both in Egypt and in all the countries round about.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Radak

Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)

הקדים as if the Torah had written קדמאה, “the one previously mentioned in verse 25.” הגיד, “He showed Pharaoh in his dream,” instead of spelling it out to him.

Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Parʻôh (“Pharaoh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Pharaoh” (Parʻôh) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 41:25, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Pharaoh” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי» is a Piel Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how John Gill's Exposition and Radak read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“Pharaoh” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.