Genesis 43:8
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהוּדָה
Yᵉhûwdâh
Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
שָׁלַח
shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
נַעַר
naʻar
(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latit...
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
חָיָה
châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
מְעַט
mᵉʻaṭ
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
טַף
ṭaph
a family (mostly used collectively in the singular)
Key Terms in This Verse
נַעַר naʻar
(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)
Study H5288 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →שָׁלַח shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Study H7971 →חָיָה châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Study H2421 →יְהוּדָה Yᵉhûwdâh
Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
Study H3063 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →Cross References
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it:...
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians:...
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow ...
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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