Genesis 44:29
in Genesis 44Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
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ASV
and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
KJV
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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This verse in Genesis 44
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd if ye take this also from me,.... His son Benjamin, as he perhaps suspected they had taken Joseph, and made away with him: and mischief befall him; either in Egypt, or on the road, going or returning, any ill accident, especially death, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, or what may issue in it: ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; it would be the means of his death, and while he lived he should be full of sorrow and grief; see Gen 42:38.
This site's exposition
you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow
on Genesis 44:29-31
The gray hair going down to Sheol is said twice here, once in Jacob's words and once in Judah's own reckoning. Judah has watched for twenty years what the first loss did to the old man. His father's life, he tells the lord, is wrapped up in the boy's life.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And for which he would search thoroughly - So it may be rendered. God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants - Referring to the injury they had formerly done to Joseph, for which they thought God was now reckoning with them. Even in those afflictions wherein we apprehend ourselves wronged by men, yet we must own that God is righteous, and finds out our iniquity.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Joseph's behavior must not be viewed from any single point, or in separate parts, but as a whole--a well-thought, deep-laid, closely connected plan; and though some features of it do certainly exhibit an appearance of harshness, yet the pervading principle of his conduct was real, genuine, brotherly kindness.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּלְקַחְתֶּ֧ם | ulekachtem | and you will take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| גַּם־ | gam- | also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| זֶ֛ה | zeh | this [one] | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| מֵעִ֥ם | meim | from with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| פָּנַ֖י | panai | presence my | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| וְקָרָ֣הוּ | vekarahu | and it will happen to him | H7136 → | 27 times |
| אָס֑וֹן | ʾason | harm | H611 → | 5 times |
| וְהֽוֹרַדְתֶּ֧ם | vehoradtem | and you will cause to go down | H3381 → | 381 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שֵׂיבָתִ֛י | seivati | gray hair my | H7872 → | 19 times |
| בְּרָעָ֖ה | beraah | in calamity | H7451 → | 662 times |
| שְׁאֹֽלָה׃ | sheolah | Sheol towards | H7585 → | 66 times |
וּלְקַחְתֶּ֧םand you will take
ulekachtemH3947 →966 times
גַּם־also
gam-H1571 →769 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
זֶ֛הthis [one]
zehH2088 →1180 times
מֵעִ֥םfrom with
meimH5973 →1050 times
פָּנַ֖יpresence my
panaiH6440 →2123 times
וְקָרָ֣הוּand it will happen to him
vekarahuH7136 →27 times
אָס֑וֹןharm
ʾasonH611 →5 times
וְהֽוֹרַדְתֶּ֧םand you will cause to go down
vehoradtemH3381 →381 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שֵׂיבָתִ֛יgray hair my
seivatiH7872 →19 times
בְּרָעָ֖הin calamity
beraahH7451 →662 times
שְׁאֹֽלָה׃Sheol towards
sheolahH7585 →66 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 42:38But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring…
it leads to
- Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 37:33
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
- Genesis 37:35
Through
Genesis 43:14May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
it leads to
- Esther 4:16
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast…
- Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Acts 21:14
When he would not be dissuaded, we fell silent and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”
- Esther 4:16
Through
Genesis 42:36Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
it leads to
- Genesis 43:14
May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
- Genesis 43:14
Through
Deuteronomy 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them.…
it leads to
- Numbers 14:42
Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
- Numbers 14:42
Where this verse is studied
About Genesis
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.