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Bible
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Joseph's Coat
By: Dr. Max D. Younce
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Question
I have heard that Joseph’s coat of many colors referred to in Genesis
37 was not that at all. I know this is not a really important question.
Answer
This phrase appears in Genesis 37:3,23,32. The Hebrew
here is "pac" and means "spread out, a coat spread out, i.e. a large
coat". Probably something that resembled our overcoat. There is a Hebrew
word, "piqmah" which means "variation of colors’, but it does not appear
here; neither does the Hebrew "tala" meaning "spotted with colors".
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