“Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
22. Joseph is a fruitful bough. Others translate it, “a son of honor,” “Filium decoris.” The original is בנ פרת, (Ben porath,) literally, “the son of fruitfulness.” The name of Joseph’s son, Ephriam, is derived from this word. — Ed and both are suitable; but I rather incline to the former sense, because it seems to me that it refers to the name Joseph, by...
He closes with the blessings of his best beloved sons, Joseph and Benjamin; with these he will breathe his last. I. The blessing of Joseph, which is very large and full. He is compared (Gen 49:22) to a fruitful bouth, or young tree; for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction; he owned it. Gen 41:52.
Commenting on Genesis 49:22-27
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee,.... The same with the mighty God of Jacob, by whom his hands had been made strong, and he would be still helped, protected, and defended against his powerful enemies; and by whom Christ, the antitype, was helped as man and Mediator against his enemies, and to do all the work he engaged in; and...