Genesis 37:5

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

Genesis 37:5 in Other Translations

5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

5 Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.

5 One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever.

5 Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

5 Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

Genesis 37:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 37:5

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his brethren,
&c.] As a dream, in the simplicity of his heart; not understanding it, or imagining there was any meaning in it; he told it not with any design to affront them, but as an amusement, and for their diversion, there being something in it odd and ridiculous, as he himself might think:

and they hated him yet the more;
not only because he had carried an ill report of them to his father, and because he loved him more than they, but still more because of this dream; the meaning of which they at once understood, though he did not, which yet they supposed he did, and that he told them it in a boasting manner, and to irritate them.

Genesis 37:5 In-Context

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.

4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 20:3; S Genesis 28:12
• 2. ver 10
• 3. ver 8