1. יאר ye'or — “river, canal,” mostly applied to the Nile. Some suppose the word to be Coptic.
2. אחוּ 'āch…

Pharaoh dreamed.—After two years spent in prison, the time has now come for Joseph’s elevation to power; and it should be noted th…

At the end of two full years. What anxiety oppressed the mind of the holy man during this time, each of us can conjecture from his own fee…

And it came to pass at the end of two full years It is not a clear case, as Aben Ezra observes, from whence these years a…

The means by which Joseph was freed from prison were Pharaoh's dreams, as related here. Now that God no longer speaks to us in that way, it matters…