Genesis 42:15

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Here by ye shall be proued. For by the lyfe of Pharao ye shall not goo hence vntyll youre yongest brother be come hither.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּזֹ֖את תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּ חֵ֤י פַרְעֹה֙ אִם־תֵּצְא֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה כִּ֧י אִם־בְּב֛וֹא אֲחִיכֶ֥ם הַקָּטֹ֖ן הֵֽנָּה׃

Transliteration

By-zōʾt tibbāḥēnû: ḥê parʿōh if-tēṣĕʾû from-here, except if-in-bĕbôʾ ʾăḥîkem haqqāṭōn here.

Grammar Details

• *zōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
• *tibbāḥēnû*: niphal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will be tested
• *ḥê*: construct form of adjective, masculine singular - life of
• *parʿōh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Pharaoh
• *tēṣĕʾû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will go out
• *bĕbôʾ*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - in coming
• *ʾăḥîkem*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your brother
• *haqqāṭōn*: definite article + adjective, masculine singular - the youngest

Word Meanings

• *ḥê*: by the life of/as surely as lives

Referenced Verses

• Gen 42:7 : 7 When Ioseph sawe his brethern he knewe them: But made straunge vnto them and spake rughly vnto them saynge: Whence come ye? and they sayde: out of the lande of Canaan to bye vitayle.
• Gen 42:12 : 12 And he sayde vnto them: nay verely but euen to se where the land is weake is youre comynge.
• Gen 42:16 : 16 Sende therfore one off you and lett him fett youre brother and ye shalbe in preason in the meane season. And thereby shall youre wordes be proued whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the lyfe of Pharao ye are but spies.
• Gen 42:20 : 20 and brynge youre yongest brother vnto me: that youre wordes maye be beleved ad that ye dye not And they did so.
• Gen 42:30 : 30 The LORde of the lade spake rughly to us and toke us for spyes to serche the countte.
• Gen 42:34 : 34 and brynge youre yongest brother vnto me And thereby shall I knowe that ye are no spyes but meane truely: So will I delyuer you youre brother agayne and ye shall occupie in the lande.
• Gen 43:3 : 3 Than sayde Iuda vnto him: the man dyd testifie vnto vs saynge: loke that ye see not my face excepte youre brother be with you.
• Gen 44:20-34 : 20 And we answered my lord we haue a father that is old and a yonge lad which he begat in his age: ad the brother of the sayde lad is dead and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loueth him. 21 Then sayde my LORde vnto his seruauntes brynge him vnto me that I maye sett myne eyes apon him. 22 And we answered my LORde that the lad coude not goo from his father for if he shulde leaue his father he were but a deed man. 23 Than saydest thou vnto thy servauntes: excepte youre yongest brother come with you loke that ye se my face no moare. 24 And when we came vnto thy servaunt oure father we shewed him what my LORde had sayde. 25 And when oure father sayde vnto vs goo agayne and bye vs a litle fode: 26 we sayd yt we coude not goo. Neverthelesse if oure youngeste brother go with vs then will we goo for we maye not see the mannes face excepte oure yongest brother be with vs. 27 Then sayde thy servaunt oure father vnto vs. Ye knowe that my wyfe bare me.ij. sonnes. 28 And the one went out from me and it is sayde of a suertie that he is torne in peaces of wyld beastes and I sawe him not sence. 29 Yf ye shall take this also awaye fro me and some mysfortune happen apon him then shall ye brynge my gray heed with sorow vnto the grave. 30 Now therfore whe I come to thy servaunt my father yf the lad be not with me: seinge that his lyfe hageth by the laddes lyf 31 then as soone as he seeth that the lad is not come he will dye. So shall we thy servautes brynge the gray hedde of thy servaunt oure father with sorow vnto the grave. 32 For I thy servaunt became suertie for the lad vnto my father and sayde: yf I bringe him not vnto the agayne. I will bere the blame all my life loge. 33 Now therfore let me thy servaunt byde here for ye lad and be my LORdes bondman: and let the lad goo home with his brethern. 34 For how can I goo vnto my father and the lad not wyth me: lest I shulde see the wretchednes that shall come on my father.
• Deut 6:13 : 13 But feare the Lorde thy God and serue hym, and swere by his name,
• Matt 5:33-37 : 33 Agayne ye haue hearde how it was sayd to the of olde tyme thou shalt not forsuere thy selfe but shalt performe thyne othe to God. 34 But I saye vnto you swere not at all nether by heue for it ys Goddes seate: 35 nor yet by the erth for it is his fote stole: nether by Ierusalem for it ys ye cyte of yt greate kynge: 36 nether shalt thou sweare by thy heed because thou canst not make one white heer or blacke: 37 But your comunicacion shalbe ye ye: nay nay. For whatsoeuer is more then yt cometh of yvell.
• Matt 23:16-22 : 16 Wo be vnto you blynd gides which saye whosoever sweare by the teple it is no thinge: but whosoever sweare by the golde of the temple he offendeth. 17 Ye foles and blinde? whether is greater the golde or the teple that sanctifieth ye golde. 18 And whosoever sweareth by the aulter it is nothinge: but whosoever sweareth by ye offeringe yt lyeth on ye aultre offendeth. 19 Ye foles and blinde: whether is greater ye offeringe or ye aultre which sanctifieth ye offeringe? 20 Whosoever therfore sweareth by ye aultre sweareth by it and by all yt there on is. 21 And whosoever sweareth by the teple sweareth by it and by hym yt dwelleth therin. 22 And he that sweareth by heve swereth by the seate of God and by hym that sytteth theron.
• Jas 5:12 : 12 But above all thynges my brethre sweare not nether by heven nether by erth nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye and youre maye naye: lest ye faule into ypocrecy.