Genesis 37:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּקֻמוּ֩ כָל־בָּנָ֨יו וְכָל־בְּנֹתָ֜יו לְנַחֲמ֗וֹ וַיְמָאֵן֙ לְהִתְנַחֵ֔ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כִּֽי־אֵרֵ֧ד אֶל־בְּנִ֛י אָבֵ֖ל שְׁאֹ֑לָה וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ אֹת֖וֹ אָבִֽיו׃

Transliteration

And wə-yāqumû all-his kāl-bānāyw and all-his wə-ḵāl-bənōṯāyw lə-naḥămô, and wə-yəmāʾēn lə-hiṯnaḥēm and wə-yōʾmer: For kî-I will go down ʾērēḏ to-my ʾel-bənî ʾāḇēl šəʾōlâ; and wə-yēḇək ʾōṯô his ʾāḇîw

Grammar Details

• *wə-yāqumû*: waw-consecutive with qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - 'and they arose'
• *kāl-bānāyw*: noun, masculine singular construct with noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'all his sons'
• *wə-ḵāl-bənōṯāyw*: conjunction with noun, masculine singular construct with noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'and all his daughters'
• *lə-naḥămô*: preposition with piel infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'to comfort him'
• *wə-yəmāʾēn*: waw-consecutive with piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'and he refused'
• *lə-hiṯnaḥēm*: preposition with hitpael infinitive construct - 'to be comforted'
• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw-consecutive with imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'and he said'
• *kî*: conjunction - 'for/because'
• *ʾērēḏ*: qal imperfect 1st common singular - 'I will go down'
• *ʾel-bənî*: preposition with noun, masculine singular with 1st common singular suffix - 'to my son'
• *ʾāḇēl*: adjective, masculine singular - 'mourning'
• *šəʾōlâ*: noun, feminine singular with directional heh - 'to Sheol'
• *wə-yēḇək*: waw-consecutive with qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'and he wept'
• *ʾōṯô*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'for him'
• *ʾāḇîw*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'his father'

Word Meanings

• *šəʾōlâ*: to Sheol/to the grave/to the realm of the dead
• *ʾāḇēl*: mourning/in mourning/grieving

Referenced Verses

• Gen 42:38 : 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
• 2 Sam 12:17 : 17 And the elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
• Job 2:11 : 11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.
• Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
• Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
• Gen 44:29-31 : 29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; 31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
• Gen 45:28 : 28 and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
• Gen 31:43 : 43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?
• Gen 35:22-26 : 22 And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun; 24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; 26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.
• Gen 42:31 : 31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: