Genesis 49:22:2Gen.49.22.W2TAB
פֹּרָת֙
porat
“fruitful”
- Transliteration
- po-RAT
- Extended
- poh-RAAT
- IPA
- /po.ˈraːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- fruitful
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
po-RAT
- phraseyour reading level
BEN po-RAT
- clause
BEN po-RAT yo-SEF BEN po-RAT a-lei-A-yin
- sentence
BEN po-RAT yo-SEF BEN po-RAT a-lei-A-yin ba-NOT tsa-a-DA a-lei-SHUR
Exegesis
The verse opens with the nominal phrase ben porat {בֵּן פֹּרָת | bēn pō-rāṯ} ‘fruitful son’, followed by the proper name in ben porat Yosef {בֵּן פֹּרָת יוֹסֵף | bēn pō-rāṯ yô-sēf} and then repeated as a second ben porat {בֵּן פֹּרָת | bēn pō-rāṯ}, creating poetic parallelism that intensifies Joseph’s fruitfulness.
Root and etymology
p-r-hpe–resh–heh
“to bear fruit, be fruitful”
In context — Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring; his branches climb over a wall.
About this coordinate
Genesis 49:22:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Genesis 49:22, so the Hebrew word פֹּרָת֙ (porat) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Gen.49.22.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.49.22.W2.S1) and character.