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

And

יְהוּדָה

Yᵉhûwdâh

H3063

Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory

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אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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unto

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Yisrâʼêl

H3478

Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

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his

אָב

ʼâb

H1

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

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שָׁלַח

shâlach

H7971

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

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the

נַעַר

naʻar

H5288

(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...

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with me and we will

קוּם

qûwm

H6965

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

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and

יָלַךְ

yâlak

H3212

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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that we may

חָיָה

châyâh

H2421

to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

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and not

מוּת

mûwth

H4191

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

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both we and thou and also our

מְעַט

mᵉʻaṭ

H4592

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

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טַף

ṭaph

H2945

a family (mostly used collectively in the singular)

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Key Terms in This Verse

lad H5288

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)

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ones H2945

טַף ṭaph

a family (mostly used collectively in the singular)

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arise H6965

קוּם qûwm

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

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Send H7971

שָׁלַח shâlach

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

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little H4592

מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

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live H2421

חָיָה châyâh

to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

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die H4191

מוּת mûwth

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

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Judah H3063

יְהוּדָה Yᵉhûwdâh

Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory

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father H1

אָב ʼâb

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

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go H3212

יָלַךְ yâlak

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

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Cross References

Genesis 42:2 cross-reference

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.

Deuteronomy 33:6 cross-reference

Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

Genesis 50:8 cross-reference

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.

Genesis 44:26 cross-reference

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.

Numbers 14:31 cross-reference

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.

2 Kings 7:13 cross-reference

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:...

Psalm 118:17 cross-reference

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

2 Kings 7:4 cross-reference

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:...

Genesis 42:38 cross-reference

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 ...

Exodus 20:12 cross-reference

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Genesis 50:21 cross-reference

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

Ezra 8:21 cross-reference

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.

Genesis 45:19 cross-reference

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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