Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.

King James Version

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

Holman Bible

Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine beside a spring;
its branches climb over the wall.

International Standard Version

"Joseph is descended from a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine planted near springs of water. His branches climb over walls.

A Conservative Version

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain, his branches run over the wall.

American Standard Version

Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.

Amplified


“Joseph is a fruitful bough (a main branch of the vine),
A fruitful bough by a spring (a well, a fountain);
Its branches run over the wall [influencing others].

Bible in Basic English

Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;

Darby Translation

Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; His branches shoot over the wall.

Julia Smith Translation

Joseph a fruitful son, a fruitful son upon a fountain, the daughters mounting over a wall.

King James 2000

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Joseph [is] the bough of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough by a spring. His branches climb over the wall.

Modern King James verseion

Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a well, whose branches run over the wall.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"That flourishing child, Joseph; that flourishing child, and goodly unto the eye! The daughters come forth to bear rule;

NET Bible

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

New Heart English Bible

"Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

The Emphasized Bible

A fruitful bough over a fountain, - Branches creeping over a wail.

Webster

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

World English Bible

"Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

Youngs Literal Translation

Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יוסף 
Yowceph 
Usage: 213

is a fruitful
פּרה 
Parah 
Usage: 29

פּרה 
Parah 
Usage: 29

by a well
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

run
צעד 
Tsa`ad 
Usage: 8

References

Context Readings

Jacob Blesses His Twelve Sons

21 Naphtali is a hind let loose, who shall give forth a good word. 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.
23 The arches have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him;

Cross References

Genesis 41:52

And the name of the second he called Ephraim, For God, said he, has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Genesis 30:22-24

And God remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

Genesis 46:27

and the sons of Joseph, who were born him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

Genesis 48:1

And it came to pass after these things that it was told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:5

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Genesis 48:16

the Angel who frees me from all evil, bless these young men, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Genesis 48:19-20

And his father refused and said, I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of Gentiles.

Numbers 32:1-42

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock, and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, it seemed unto them that the place was a place for livestock.

Deuteronomy 33:13-17

And to Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD is his land, for the gifts of the heavens, for the dew, and for the deep that is stretched out beneath,

Joshua 16:1-10

And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan of Jericho unto the water of Jericho towards the east to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho to Mount Bethel,

Joshua 17:14-17

And the sons of Joseph spoke unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people and that the LORD has blessed me as such until now?

Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 128:1

Blessed is every one that fears the LORD, that walks in his ways.

Psalm 128:3

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house; thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Ezekiel 19:11

And she had strong rods for the sceptres of those that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height and with the multitude of her branches.

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