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Genesis 40:8 KJV
Genesis · chapter 40 · verse 8
And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.Genesis 40:8 · King James Version
Genesis 40:8 in context
6And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
7And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
8And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
9And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
10And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- interpretationspithrôwninterpretationH6623 →
- interpreterpâtharto open upH6622 →
- dreamedchâlamproperly, to bind firmlyH2492 →
- JosephYôwçêphJoseph, the name of seven IsraelitesH3130 →
- dreamchălôwma dreamH2472 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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Observe, I. The special providence of God, which filled the heads of these two prisoners with unusual dreams, such as made extraordinary impressions upon them, and carried with them evidences of a divine origin, both in one night.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-19