Genesis 44:34
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
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ASV
For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
KJV
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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15 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| כִּי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → |
| אֵיךְ֙ | 'eiKh | how? | H349 → |
| אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה | 'e.'e.Leh | will I go up | H5927 → |
| אֶל־ | 'el- | to | H413 → |
| אָבִ֔י | 'a.Vi | father my | H1 → |
| וְהַנַּ֖עַר | ve.ha.Na.'ar | and the lad | H5288 → |
| אֵינֶ֣נּוּ | 'ei.ne.Nu | not [is] he | H369 → |
| אִתִּ֑י | 'i.Ti | with me | H854 → |
| פֶּ֚ן | pen | lest | H6435 → |
| אֶרְאֶ֣ה | 'er.'Eh | I should look | H7200 → |
| בָרָ֔ע | va.Ra' | on the calamity | H7451 → |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | 'a.Sher | which | H834 → |
| יִמְצָ֖א | yim.Tza' | it will find | H4672 → |
| אֶת־ | 'et- | <obj.> | H853 → |
| אָבִֽי׃ | 'a.Vi | father my | H1 → |
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