Acts 7 verse 9

Acts 7 verse 9

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him.  (KJV)

And being jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs gave him over into Egypt.     (IB)

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Retranslation:  Your ancestors were grieved within themselves at what they supposed was their brother’s superiority; and, feeling discontent within themselves, their ignoble pride led them to hate their brother, who was increasing more and more with God; and they delivered him into confinement; but the Eternal self-Existent accompanied him even into his confinement, and continued to associate with him, and remained near to him.

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patriarchs 3966 partiarches, from 3965 and 757; a progenitor (“patriarch”):-----patriarch.

3965 patria, as if feminine of a derivative of 3962; paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation):----family, kindred, lineage.

3962 pater, apparently a primary word; a “father” (lit. or fig., near or more remote):-----father, parent.

757 archo, a primary verb; to be first (in political rank or power):-----reign (rule) over.

being jealous 2206 zeloo, from 2205; to have warmth of feeling for or against:----affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous, zealously affect.

2205 zelos, from 2204; properly heat, i.e. (figuratively) “zeal” (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealously, as of a husband [figuratively of God], or an enemy, malice):----emulation, envy, envying, fervent mind, indignation, jealously, zeal.

envy v.t. (1828 Dict. def.): [L. invidio, in and video, to see against, that is, to look with enmity.]

1. To feel uneasiness, mortification or discontent, at the sight of superior excellence, reputation or happiness enjoyed by another; to repine at another’s prosperity; to fret or grieve one’s self at the real or supposed superiority of another, and to hate him on that account.

“Envy thou not the oppressor.” Prov. iii.

“Whoever envies another, confesses his superiority.” Rambler.

1. To grudge; to withhold maliciously.

envy n. (ibid.):

1. Pain, uneasiness, mortification or discontent excited by another’s superiority or success, accompanied with some degree of hatred or malignity, and often or usually with a desire or an effort to depreciate the person, and with pleasure in seeing him depressed. Envy springs from pride, ambition or love, mortified that another has obtained what one has a strong desire to possess.

“All human virtue, to its latest breath,

Finds envy never conquered, but by death.” Pope.

Emulation differs from envy, in not being accompanied with hatred and a desire to depress a more fortunate person.

“Envy, to which th’ ignoble mind’s a slave,

Is emulation in the learn’d or brave.” Pope.

1. Rivalry; competition.
2. Malice; malignity.

“You turn the good we offer into envy.” Shak.

4. Public odium; ill repute; invidiousness.

gave over 591 apodidomi, from 575 and 1325; to give away, i.e. up, over, back, etc. (in various applications):-----deliver (again), give (again), pay, repay, payment be made, perform, recompense, render, requite, restore, reward, sell, yield.

Joseph 2501 Ioseph, of Hebrew origin  [H3130]

H3130 yosep, future of H3254; let him add (or perhaps simply active participle of adding); Joseph, the name of seven Israelites:-----Joseph. Compare H3084.

H3254 yasap, a primitive root; to add or augment (often adverbially to continue to do a thing):-----add, again, any more, cease, come more, conceive again, continue, exceed, further, gather together, get more, give moreover, henceforth, increase, increase more and more, join, longer, longer bring, longer do, longer make longer much, longer put, more, the more much more, yet more, more and more, proceed, proceed further, prolong, put, be stronger, yet, yield.

into 1519 eis, a primary preposition; to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases:-----abundant, abundantly, against, among, as, at, back, backward, before, by, concerning, continual, far more exceeding, for [intent, purpose], fore, forth, in (among, at, unto), inso much that, into, to the intent that, of one mind, never, of, on, upon, perish, set at one again, (so) that, therefore, thereunto, throughout, till, to (be, the end). toward, heretoward, until to . . . ward, fore, wherefore, with. Often used in compounds with the same general import, but only with verbs (etc.) expressing motion (lit. or fig.).

Egypt 125 Aigyptos, of uncertain derivation; Aegyptus, the land of the Nile:----Egypt.

H4714 misrayim, dual of H4693; Misrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:----Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

H4693 masor, the same as 4692 in the sense of a limit; Egypt (as the border of Palestine):---besieged places, defense, fortified.

H4692 masor or masur, from 6696; something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness:----besieged, bulwark, defense, fenced, fortress, siege, hold, strong hold, tower.

H6696 sur, a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literal or figurative, formative or hostile):------adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind, bind up, cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.

God 2316

was 2258

with 3326 meta, a primary preposition (often used adverbially); properly denoting accompaniment; “amid” (locally or causally); modified variously according to the case (genitive, association, or accusative succession) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between 575 or 1537 and 1519 or 4314; less intimate than 1722, and less close than 4862. Often used in compounds, in substantially the same relations of participation or proximity, and transfer or sequence:------after, afterward, that be again, against, among, and follow, hence, hereafter, in, of, on, upon, our, and setting, since, to unto, together, when, with, without.

him 846