Genesis 42:36

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And Iacob their father sayde vnto them: Me haue ye robbed of my childern: Ioseph is away and Simeon is awaye and ye will take Ben Iamin awaye. All these thinges fall vpon me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ יַעֲקֹ֣ב אֲבִיהֶ֔ם אֹתִ֖י שִׁכַּלְתֶּ֑ם יוֹסֵ֤ף אֵינֶ֙נּוּ֙ וְשִׁמְע֣וֹן אֵינֶ֔נּוּ וְאֶת־בִּנְיָמִ֣ן תִּקָּ֔חוּ עָלַ֖י הָי֥וּ כֻלָּֽנָה׃

Transliteration

And wə-yōʾmer to them yaʿăqōḇ their father, me you have šikkaltěm; yôsēp̄ is not, and šimʿôn is not, and wə-ʾět-binyāmīn you will take; upon me hāyû all of them.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *yaʿăqōḇ*: proper noun, masculine singular - Jacob
• *šikkaltěm*: piel perfect, 2nd masculine plural - you have bereaved/made childless
• *yôsēp̄*: proper noun, masculine singular - Joseph
• *šimʿôn*: proper noun, masculine singular - Simeon
• *wə-ʾět-binyāmīn*: waw conjunction + direct object marker + proper noun - and Benjamin
• *tִּkāḥû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will take
• *hāyû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they were/have been
• *kullānāh*: noun, feminine plural + 3rd feminine plural suffix - all of them

Word Meanings

• *šikkaltěm*: you have bereaved me/made me childless/deprived me of children
• *ʾêněnnû*: he is not/is no more/is gone
• *tִּkāḥû*: you will take/are taking/want to take
• *ʿālay*: upon me/against me/to my detriment
• *hāyû kullānāh*: all these things have happened to me/all these troubles have come upon me

Referenced Verses

• Gen 43:14 : 14 And God almightie geue you mercie in the sighte of the man and send you youre other brother and also Be Iamin and I wilbe as a ma robbed of his childern.
• Gen 45:28 : 28 And Israel sayde. I haue ynough yf Ioseph my sonne be yet alyue: I will goo and se him yer that I dye.
• Gen 47:12 : 12 And Ioseph made prouysion for his father his brethern and all his fathers housholde as yonge childern are fedd with bread.
• Matt 14:31 : 31 And immediatly Iesus stretched forth his hode and caught him and sayde to him: O thou of lytell faith wherfore diddest thou dout?
• Rom 8:28 : 28 For we knowe that all thinges worke for the best vnto them yt love God which also are called of purpose.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What shall we then saye vnto these thinges? yf god be on oure syde: who can be agaynst vs?
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath none other temptacion taken you but soche as foloweth ye nature of ma. But God is faythfull which shall not suffer you to be tempted above youre strenght: but shall in the myddes of the temptacion make awaye to escape out.
• 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For oure excedinge tribulacion which is momentany and light prepareth an excedinge and an eternall wayght of glorye
• Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Be pacient therfore brethren vnto the commynge of the LORde. Beholde the husbande man wayteth for the precious frute of the erth and hath longe pacience ther vppon vntill he receave (the erly and the latter rayne.) 8 Be ye also pacient therfore and settle youre hertes for ye commynge of the LORde draweth nye. 9 Grodge not one agaynst another brethre lest ye be dapned. Beholde the iudge stondeth before the dore. 10 Take (my brethren) the prophettes for an ensample of sufferynge adversitie and of longe pacience which spake in the name of the LORde. 11 Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye have hearde of the pacience of Iob and have knowen what ende the LORde made. For the LORde is very pitifull and mercifull.
• Gen 37:20-35 : 20 come now and let us sley him and cast him in to some pytt and let vs saye that sonne wiked beast hath deuoured him and let us see what his dreames wyll come to. 21 When Ruben herde that he wet aboute to ryd him out of their handes and sayde let vs not kyll him. 22 And Ruben sayde moreouer vnto them shed not his bloude but cast him in to this pytt that is in the wildernes and laye no handes vpon him: for he wolde haue rydd him out of their handes and delyuered him to his father agayne. 23 And as soone as Ioseph was come vnto his brethren they strypte him out of his gay coote that was vpon him 24 and they toke him and cast him in to a pytt: But the pytt was emptie and had no water therein. 25 And they satt them doune to eate brede. And as they lyft vp their eyes and loked aboute there came a companye of Ismaelites from Gilead and their camels lade with spicery baulme and myrre and were goynge doune in to Egipte. 26 Than sayde Iuda to his brethre what avayleth it that we sley oure brother and kepe his bloude secrett? 27 come on let vs sell him to the Ismaelites and let not oure handes be defyled vpon him: for he is oure brother and oure flesh. And his brethren were content. 28 Than as the Madianites marchaunt men passed by they drewe Ioseph out of the pytt and sold him vnto the Ismaelites for.xx. peces of syluer. And they brought him into Egipte. 29 And when Ruben came agayne vnto the pytt and founde not Ioseph there he rent his cloothes 30 and went agayne vnto his brethern saynge: the lad is not yonder and whether shall I goo? 31 And they toke Iosephs coote ad kylled a goote and dypped the coote in the bloud. 32 And they sent that gay coote and caused it to be brought vnto their father and sayd: This haue we founde: se whether it be thy sones coote or no. 33 And he knewe it saynge: it is my sonnes coote a wicked beast hath deuoured him and Ioseph is rent in peces. 34 And Iacob rent his cloothes ad put sacke clothe aboute his loynes and sorowed for his sonne a longe season. 35 Than came all his sonnes ad all his doughters to comforte him. And he wold not be comforted but sayde: I will go doune in to ye grave vnto my sonne mornynge. And thus his father wepte for him.