GEN 41:52 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) His second son he named ‘Efrayim’ (which means ‘fruitful’), because he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my difficulties.”

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Τὸ δὲ ὄνομα τοῦ δευτέρου ἐκάλεσεν, Ἐφραίμ· ὅτι ηὔξησέ με ὁ Θεὸς ἐν γῇ ταπεινώσεώς μου.
(To de onoma tou deuterou ekalesen, Efraim; hoti aʸuxaʸse me ho Theos en gaʸ tapeinōseōs mou. )

BrTr And he called the name of the second, Ephraim; for God, said he, has increased me in the land of my humiliation.

ULT And the name of the second son he called Ephraim, because he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

UST And he named his second son Ephraim, which means “twice prosperous,” and he explained, “It is because God has helped me to prosper in the country where I have suffered so much.”

BSB And the second [son] he named Ephraim,[fn] saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

41:52 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful or twice fruitful.

OEB He named the second son Ephraim[fn]; for he said, ‘God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.’

Fruitful

WEBBE The name of the second, he called Ephraim:[fn] “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

41:52 “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful”.

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

LSV and the name of the second he has called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

FBV His second son he named Ephraim,[fn] because he said, “God has made me fruitful in the country of my misery.”

41:52 “Ephraim” means “fruitful.”

T4T He named his second son Ephraim, which means ‘to have children’, because, he said, “God has given me children here in this land where I have suffered.”

LEB No LEB GEN book available

BBE And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.

Moff No Moff GEN book available

JPS And the name of the second called he Ephraim: 'for God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.'

ASV And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

DRA And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.

YLT and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: 'for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.'

Drby And the name of the second he called Ephraim — For [fn]God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

41.52 Elohim

RV And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
(And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath/has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. )

SLT And the name of the second, he called Ephraim; for God caused me to flourish in the land of my affliction.

Wbstr And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

KJB-1769 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.[fn]
(And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath/has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. )

41.52 Ephraim: that is, Fruitful

KJB-1611 And the name of the second called he [fn]Ephraim: for God hath caused mee to be fruitfull in the land of my affliction.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and footnotes)

41:52 That is, Fruitfull.

Bshps No Bshps GEN book available

Gnva Also hee called the name of the second, Ephraim: For God, sayde he hath made me fruitfull in the land of mine affliction.
(Also he called the name of the second, Ephraim: For God, said he hath/has made me fruitful in the land of mine affliction. )

Cvdl No Cvdl GEN book available

Wycl No Wycl GEN book available

Luth No Luth GEN book available

ClVg Nomen quoque secundi appellavit Ephraim, dicens: Crescere me fecit Deus in terra paupertatis meæ.
(Name too secundi he_called Ephraim, saying: Crescere me he_did God in/into/on earth/land of_poverty my. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT GEN book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

וְ⁠אֵ֛ת שֵׁ֥ם הַ⁠שֵּׁנִ֖י קָרָ֣א

and=DOM name_of the=second he/it_called

Alternate translation: [And Joseph named his second son]

Note 1 topic: translate-names

אֶפְרָ֑יִם

Efrayim

If you include the meaning of Ephraim’s name in your translation or in a footnote, it should fit with the way you translate fruitful in the following clause.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

כִּֽי־הִפְרַ֥⁠נִי אֱלֹהִ֖ים

that/for/because/then/when made_~_fruitful,me ʼElohīm

Consider again how you translated the idiom fruitful in the book of Genesis. See Gen 17:6; 26:22; 41:52.

Parallel GEN 41:52