Genesis 37:20
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
הָיָה
hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Key Terms in This Verse
הָיָה hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Study H1961 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →Cross References
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
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