{"query": "Joseph in Egypt", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9cd8aca9e998", "title": "Joseph in Egypt", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Loved son betrayed by brothers; slave to Potiphar; resists adultery; forgotten in prison; raised to second in Egypt; forgives with you meant it for evil but God meant it for good.\n\nFailure mode: Youth"}, {"id": "card_src_word_joseph", "title": "joseph", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "joseph: (noun) leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904) — syn: Chief Joseph · (noun) (Old Testament) the 11th son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel;"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_45_16", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:16", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 45:16 — Here is, 1. The kindness of Pharaoh to Joseph, and to his relations for his sake: he bade his brethren welcome (Gen 45:16), though it was a time of scarcity, and they were likely to"}, {"id": "card_c_01905dda344e", "title": "Easton: Joseph references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_9f70a75c8771", "title": "Easton: Moses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Drawn (or Egypt. mesu, “son;” hence Rameses, royal son). On the invitation of Pharaoh (Gen. 45:17-25), Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt. This immigration took place probably about 350 years bef"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_47_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 47:1 — Here is, I. The respect which Joseph, as a subject, showed to his prince. Though he was his favourite, and prime-minister of state, and had had particular orders from him to send for"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_matthew_2_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on Matthew 2:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Matthew 2:13 — We have here Christ's flight into Egypt to avoid the cruelty of Herod, and this was the effect of the wise men's enquiry after him; for, before that, the obscurity he lay in was his "}, {"id": "card_n_9515ae317a6c", "title": "Easton: Stream of Egypt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 27:12), the Wady el-‘Arish, called also “the river of Egypt,” R.V., “brook of Egypt” (Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4; 2 Kings 24:7). It is the natural boundary of Egypt. Occasionally in winter, when heav"}, {"id": "card_n_b42234543200", "title": "Easton: Ephraim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt (Gen. 41:52; 46:20). The first incident recorded regarding him is his being"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_42_7", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:7", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 42:7 — We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his fathe"}, {"id": "card_n_94e913d8ad66", "title": "Easton: Exodus, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Exodus is the name given in the LXX. to the second book of the Pentateuch (q.v.). It means “departure” or “outgoing.” This name was adopted in the Latin translation, and thence passed into other langu"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_47_27", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:27", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 47:27 — Observe, 1. The comfort Jacob lived in (Gen 47:27, Gen 47:28); while the Egyptians were impoverished in their own land, Jacob was replenished in a strange land. He lived seventeen y"}, {"id": "card_c_e543474d8a1a", "title": "Easton: River of Egypt references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_d5b2848a24db", "title": "Easton: Stream of Egypt references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_4f05756acf2a", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_04: Ten miracles were wrought for our ancestors in Egypt, and ten at the sea. references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_b6dc67592e98", "title": "Easton: Prison", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, “Joseph’s master, took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bo"}, {"id": "card_n_604fe8364075", "title": "Easton: Egypt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture. The Egyptians belonged to the white race, and their original ho"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_joshua_17_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Joshua 17:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Joshua 17:1 — Manasseh was itself but one half of the tribe of Joseph, and yet was divided and subdivided. 1. It was divided into two parts, one already settled on the other side Jordan, consisting"}, {"id": "card_n_1dd30499be9a", "title": "Easton: River of Egypt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. nahar mitsraim, denotes in Gen. 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chr. 9:26). (2.) In Num. 34:5 (R.V., “brook of Egypt”) the Hebrew word is nahal, denoting a stream flowing rapidly in"}, {"id": "card_n_9d61252391b5", "title": "Easton: Simeon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hearing. (1.) The second son of Jacob by Leah (Gen. 29:33). He was associated with Levi in the terrible act of vengeance against Hamor and the Shechemites (34:25, 26). He was detained by Joseph in Egy"}]}