King James Version
Genesis 43:6 in the King James Version says “And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 43 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?”
Genesis 43:6 · KJV
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? asked: Heb. asking asked us tenor: Heb. mouth could: Heb. knowing could we know
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.
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“And Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“Wherefore dealt ye so ill”
H7489properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e., bad (physically, socially or morally)
“with me as to tell”
H5046properly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
“the man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
“whether ye had yet a brother”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
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