Genesis 42:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־כֵּנִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם אֲחִיכֶ֣ם אֶחָ֔ד יֵאָסֵ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית מִשְׁמַרְכֶ֑ם וְאַתֶּם֙ לְכ֣וּ הָבִ֔יאוּ שֶׁ֖בֶר רַעֲב֥וֹן בָּתֵּיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

If-kēnîm you, ʾăḥîkem one yēʾāsēr in bêt your-mišmarkem; and you, go, hābîʾû šeber raʿăbôn your-bāttêkem.

Grammar Details

*kēnîm*: adjective, masculine plural - honest/truthful
*ʾăḥîkem*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your brother
*yēʾāsēr*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will be bound
*bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
*mišmarkem*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your guard/prison
*hābîʾû*: hiphil imperative, masculine plural - bring
*šeber*: noun, masculine singular - grain
*raʿăbôn*: noun, masculine singular - hunger/famine
*bāttêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your houses

Word Meanings

*kēnîm*: honest/truthful/upright
*šeber*: grain/food/provisions
*raʿăbôn*: hunger/famine/starvation

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Referenced Verses

Gen 40:3 : 3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Gen 41:56 : 56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Gen 42:1-2 : 1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 2 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.
Gen 42:26 : 26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
Gen 43:1-2 : 1 And the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Gen 45:23 : 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
Isa 42:7 : 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Isa 42:22 : 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Jer 37:15 : 15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

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34And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
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