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Genesis 37:19

this dreamer Heb. master of dreams. This and the following verse are from E. Joseph's brethren speak derisively of this "master (Heb. baal) of dreams" (cf. Genesis 49:23, "archers" = "masters of arrows"; 2 Kings 1:8, "a hairy man" = "a master of hair"). They will kill him, and so stop his dreams from coming true.

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See also Genesis 37:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 37:19. _BEHOLD, THIS DREAMER COMETH._] בעל החלמות _baal_ _hachalomoth_, this _master of dreams_, this _master dreamer_. A form of speech which conveys great contempt....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Joseph Was Sold into Egypt 17. דתין _dotayı̂n_ Dothain, “two wells?” (Gesenius) 25. נכאת _n__e__ko't_ “tragacanth” or goat’s-thorn gum, yielded by the “astragalus gummifer”, a native of Mount Leban...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    XII. THE GENERATIONS OF JACOB CHAPTER 37 The Story of Joseph _ 1. Jacob dwelling in Canaan (Genesis 37:1)_ 2. Joseph's character and feeding the flock (Genesis 37:2) 3. Beloved of his father (Gene...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    To J we may assign Genesis 37:18_ b_ (and before, etc.), Genesis 37:21 (substituting Judah for Reuben), Genesis 37:23; Genesis 37:25;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-SIX THE STORY OF JOSEPH (Genesis 37:1-36; Genesis 39:1 to Genesis 47:31) 1. _The Biblical Story: Joseph as a Youth in Canaan_ ...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM AFAR OFF, EVEN BEFORE HE CAME NEAR UNTO THEM, THEY CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM TO SLAY HIM._ When they saw him afar off. On the level grass-field, where they were watching their catt...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    37:19 dreamer! (c-11) Lit. 'master of dreams.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSEPH IS HATED BY HIS BRETHREN AND SOLD INTO EGYPT With the exception of a few passages chiefly in Genesis 46, 49, the rest of the book of Genesis is taken from the Primitive source. The chief event...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 37 JOSEPH’S DREAMS V1 Jacob lived in the country that is called *Canaan. That is the country where his father had stayed. V2 This is the story of...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THIS DREAMER. — Heb., _this lord of dreams,_ a phrase expressive of contempt....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמְר֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל ־אָחִ֑יו הִנֵּ֗ה בַּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    JOSEPH'S DREAMS Genesis 37:1 "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee."- Psalms 76:10 THE migration of Israel from Canaan to Egypt was a step of prime importance in the history. Great difficultie...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JOSEPH'S BROTHERS PLOT HIS DEATH Genesis 37:12 Throughout Joseph was a very remarkable type of our Lord. There was, first, this mission of the beloved son to inquire after the well-being of his breth...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    From this point in the sacred narrative, though Jacob appears more than once, for a time the history centers around Joseph, and it is certainly safe to say that in many aspects no more remarkable figu...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REVENGE Joseph's brothers took their father's sheep to the area around Shechem. Remember, this area would have been fraught with potential danger because of the slaughter worked by...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The dreamer. Hebrew Bahal hachalomoth, "the lord of dreams," or the visionary lord (Calmet); or one who feigns dreams: so the Jews say of our Saviour, this seducer. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Luke 20:14 See Genesis 42:22.-Observe how the LORD interposes by his instruments in the hour of need!...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 THROUGH 41. What follows from chapter 37 is the interesting history of Joseph, to which even children ever yield a ready ear, although ignorant of all the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER,.... According to the Targum of Jonathan, Simeon and Levi said what follows: nor is it unlikely, since they were hot, passionate, cruel, and bloody minded men, as appears...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Ver. 19. _Behold, this dreamer._] This captain dreamer, or, this architect of dreams. A lewd scoff, and, by it, a cruel calumny. Envy, so it...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When they saw him they conspired against him_ It was not in a heat, or upon a sudden provocation, that they thought to slay him, but from malice prepense, and in cold blood. _Behold this dreamer come...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    2 Ioseph is hated of his brethren. 5 His two dreames. 13 Iacob sendeth him to visite his brethren. 18 His brethren conspire his death. 21 Reuben saueth him. 26 They sell him to the Ishmeelites....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Joseph Sent to Shechem...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they said one to an other, Behold, this dreamer cometh, literally, This master of dreams is coming....

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD PERIOD The Genesis of the People of israel in egypt from the twelve branches of israel, or the history of joseph and his brethren. joseph the patriarch of the faith-dispensation through humilia...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN How significant is the truth of verse 1, "Jacob lived in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan." It had taken him some years to finally settle there, but...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DREAMER: _ Heb._ master of dreams...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 How readily does Joseph wait his father's orders! Those children who are best beloved by their parents, should be the most ready to obey them. See how deliberate Joseph's brethren were against...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Heb. THIS MASTER OF DREAMS, this crafty dreamer, that covers his own ambitious designs and desires with pretences or fictions of dreams....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 37:19 said H559 (H8799) one H376 another H251 this H1976 dreamer H1167 H2472 coming H935 ...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 37 Joseph's is one of the most interesting histories in the world. He has the strange power of uniting our hearts to him, as to a well-beloved friend. He had "the genius to be loved greatly,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Generations of Joseph. Joseph hated and rejected by his brothers. Cast into pit. Carried away by Gentiles. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, Reuben, Judah, Potiphar. CONCLUSION: Envy is a canker...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 37:2. _These are the generations,_ or events which happened to Jacob's _family. Sons of Bilhah._ Jacob seems to have divided Leah's sons from the sons of the bond-women, who proved very wicked...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They conspired against him to slay him_ THE CONSPIRACY TO MURDER JOSEPH I. AN EXAMPLE OF THE RAPIDLY DOWNWARD COURSE OF EVIL. II. AN EXAMPLE. OF THE BOLD DARING OF SINNERS. III. AN EXAMPLE OF GUI...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 37:18 THIS DREAMER. The brothers’ comment is full of sarcasm. The expression implies “master/owner of the dreams.” ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 37:2 Jacob’s Descendants. The last main section of Genesis 1:1 further develops the theme of a royal line descended from Abraham. As governor of Egypt

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 37:18. Conspired.] Heb. “Cunningly plotted.”— GENESIS 37:19. THIS DREAMER.] Heb. “Lord, or master of dreams;” using the title in bitter scorn.— Genesis 37:23. They stript Jo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 37:12 AND HIS BRETHREN WENT TO FEED THEIR FATHER'S FLOCK IN SHECHEM—_i.e._ the modern Nablous, in the plain of Muknah, which belonged to Jacob partly by purchase and partly by conq...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Genesis chapter thirty-seven. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. And these are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feedi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Behold. dreamer. Heb. master of dreams. Genesis 37:5 Genesis 37:11 Genesis 28:12 Genesis 49:23...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JOSEPH SEEKING HIS BRETHREN Genesis 37:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is difficult for us to understand why Joseph's brethren should have hated him. Joseph was but a youth of quiet mien and true integrit...

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