Genesis 49:22 · KJV
“Joseph {is} a fruitful bough, {even} a fruitful bough by a well; {whose} branches run over the wall: {branches: Heb. daughters}”
— Genesis 49:22
Naphtali {is} a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot {at him}, and hated him:
Genesis 49 — Context
Out of Asher his bread {shall be} fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21Naphtali {is} a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
22Joseph {is} a fruitful bough, {even} a fruitful bough by a well; {whose} branches run over the wall: {branches: Heb. daughters}
23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot {at him}, and hated him:
24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty {God} of Jacob; (from thence {is} the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Cross References
Genesis 41:52
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. {Ephraim: that is, Fruitful}
Psalms 1:1-3
Blessed {is} the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. {ungodly: or, wicked}
Psalms 128:3
Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Joshua 17:14-17
And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me {but} one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I {am} a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
Joshua 16:1-10
And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel, {fell: Heb. went forth}
Genesis 46:27
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, {were} two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, {were} threescore and ten.
Genesis 30:22-24
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
Psalms 128:1
[A Song of degrees.] Blessed {is} every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.