Genesis 40:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

From off thee. This clause is industriously added here to the former phrase, to show that it was now meant in another sense. He shall indeed lift up thy head, as well as the chief butler s, but in another manner, not for time, but from thee, or so as to take away thy head or thy life (which eminently consists and appears in the head) from thee.

Genesis 40:19

19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.