What Does Genesis 40:15 Mean in the King James?
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew doubles “stolen”, literally, “stolen, I was stolen”, so the verse names displacement itself as an injury before it names the pit.
THE MEANING
You can be taken from your home and confined without cause; the taking does not become your fault because you are in the pit. The verse gives words to the truth that harm done to you does not turn into guilt in you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie it dissolves is that being put in a pit proves you belong there.
THE ROOT
גָּנֹב גֻּנַּבְתִּי
ganov gunnabti
GROWS FROM
גנב
ganav
To steal or take unlawfully.
“stolen away” in this verse is ganov gunnabti. The Hebrew pairs an infinitive with a verb to intensify the claim: “stolen, I was stolen.” Its root keeps the taking visible as an act done to a person, rather than making displacement sound like a neutral change of place.
ALSO GROWS
gannab: A person who steals.
גַּנָּב
The branch names the agent behind the taking, keeping responsibility with the one who seizes another.
genevah: The act of stealing; theft.
גְּנֵבָה
This branch frames the displacement as a violation, not as evidence that the displaced person is at fault.
THE PATTERN
A person’s confinement does not make their suffering deserved or turn innocence into guilt.
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.THE THREAD
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.The same גנב (ganav, steal) root names the taking here and the stealing of a person in Exodus. That shared seed makes “stolen away” more than displacement: the word identifies a person’s seizure as theft.
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