Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Joseph est le rejeton d'un arbre fertile, Le rejeton d'un arbre fertile près d'une source; Les branches s'élèvent au-dessus de la muraille.
KJV
Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
Philo Judaeus
De Sobrietate
αι (Gen. 37, 2), καὶ ὅταν εὔχηται ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῷ, φησίν· „υἱὸς ηὐξημένος νεώτατος πρὸς μὲ ἀνάστρεψον“ (Gen. 49, 22). οὗτος δέ ἐστιν ὁ τῆς περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἁπάσης ὑπέρμαχος δυνάμεως καὶ ὁ τῆς τῶν ἐκτὸς ἀφθονίας ἀκολάκευτος ἑταῖρος, ὁ τῆς πρεσβυτέρας ψυχῆς πρεσβύτερον καὶ τιμιώτερον ἀγαθ…
Philo Judaeus
De Sobrietate
φητικὸς λόγος τὸν σπουδαῖον ἔγραψεν εὐχεσθαί τινι τῶν ἑαυτοῦ γνωρίμων λέγοντα „πρὸς μὲ ἀνάστρεψον“ (Gen. 49, 22), ἵνα ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ γνώμην ἐπανελθών, τὸ καλὸν ὡς ἀγαθὸν μόνον δεξιωσάμενος, τὰς τῶν ἑπροδόξων παραδράμῃ περὶ τἀγαθοῦ φήμας. ἐν οὖν τοῖς οἴκοις τῆς ψυχῆς τοῦ λέγοντος μ…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
vincula brachiorum et manuum ejus per manus potentis Jacob. Inde pastor egressus est, lapis Israel (Gen. XLIX, 22-24). O fili Joseph, qui tam pulcher es, ut te tota de muris et turribus, ac fenestris puellarum Aegypti turba prospectaret [ Ms., prospectet]; inviderunt tibi [et te…
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