Genesis 41:49
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And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.

Genesis 22:17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Judges 6:5 For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like locusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of camels, wasting whatsoever they touched.

Judges 7:12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

1 Samuel 13:5 The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of people besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up they camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven.

Psalm 78:27 And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

Jeremiah 33:22 As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites my ministers.

Context
The Seven Years of Plenty
48And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city. 49And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.50And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.…
Cross References
Genesis 41:48
And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.

Genesis 41:50
And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.

Lexicon
So Joseph
יוֹסֵ֥ף (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

stored up
וַיִּצְבֹּ֨ר (way·yiṣ·bōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6651: To aggregate

grain
בָּ֛ר (bār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1250: Grain, the open country

in such abundance,
הַרְבֵּ֣ה (har·bêh)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 7235: To be or become much, many or great

like the sand
כְּח֥וֹל (kə·ḥō·wl)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2344: Sand

of the sea,
הַיָּ֖ם (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

that
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

he stopped
חָדַ֥ל (ḥā·ḏal)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

keeping track of it;
לִסְפֹּ֖ר (lis·pōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 5608: To count, recount, relate

for
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

it was beyond
אֵ֥ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

measure.
מִסְפָּֽר׃ (mis·pār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration


Additional Translations
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.

And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.

And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number.
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