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Genesis 47:19
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 לָ֧/מָּה מָה H4100 HR/Ti מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
2 נָמ֣וּת מוּת H4191 HVqi1cp מוּת a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
3 לְ/עֵינֶ֗י/ךָ עַ֫יִן H5869 HR/Ncbdc/Sp2ms עַ֫יִן probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape): affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
4 גַּם גַּם H1571 HTa גַּם by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and: again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
5 אֲנַ֨חְנוּ֙ אֲנַ֫חְנוּ H587 HPp1cp אֲנַ֫חְנוּ apparently from אָנֹכִי; we: ourselves, us, we.
6 גַּ֣ם גַּם H1571 HTa גַּם by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and: again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
7 אַדְמָתֵ֔/נוּ אֲדָמָה H127 HNcfsc/Sp1cp אֲדָמָה from אָדַם; soil (from its general redness): country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
8 קְנֵֽה קָנָה H7069 HVqv2ms קָנָה a primitive root; to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
9 אֹתָ֥/נוּ אוֹת H853 HTo/Sp1cp אוֹת apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely): (as such unrepresented in English).
10 וְ/אֶת אוֹת H853 HC/To אוֹת apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely): (as such unrepresented in English).
11 אַדְמָתֵ֖/נוּ אֲדָמָה H127 HNcfsc/Sp1cp אֲדָמָה from אָדַם; soil (from its general redness): country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
12 בַּ/לָּ֑חֶם לָ֫חֶם H3899 HRd/Ncbsa לָ֫חֶם from לָחַם; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it): ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also בֵּית לְעַפְרָה.
13 וְ/נִֽהְיֶ֞ה הָיָה H1961 HC/Vqi1cp הָיָה a primitive root (compare הָוָה); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
14 אֲנַ֤חְנוּ אֲנַ֫חְנוּ H587 HPp1cp אֲנַ֫חְנוּ apparently from אָנֹכִי; we: ourselves, us, we.
15 וְ/אַדְמָתֵ֨/נוּ֙ אֲדָמָה H127 HC/Ncfsc/Sp1cp אֲדָמָה from אָדַם; soil (from its general redness): country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
16 עֲבָדִ֣ים עָ֫בֶד H5650 HNcmpa עָ֫בֶד from עָבַד; a servant: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
17 לְ/פַרְעֹ֔ה פַּרְעֹה H6547 HR/Np פַּרְעֹה of Egyptian derivation; Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings: Pharaoh.
18 וְ/תֶן נָתַן H5414 HC/Vqv2ms נָתַן a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.): add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
19 זֶ֗רַע זָ֫רַע H2233 HNcmsa זָ֫רַע from זָרַע; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
20 וְ/נִֽחְיֶה֙ חָיָה H2421 HC/Vqi1cp חָיָה a primitive root (compare חָוָה, חָיָה); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
21 וְ/לֹ֣א לֹא H3808 HC/Tn לֹא or lowi; or loh (Deut. 3:11); a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles (as follows): X before, + or else, ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (X as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, + of a truth, + verily, for want, + whether, without.
22 נָמ֔וּת מוּת H4191 HVqi1cp מוּת a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
23 וְ/הָ/אֲדָמָ֖ה אֲדָמָה H127 HC/Td/Ncfsa אֲדָמָה from אָדַם; soil (from its general redness): country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
24 לֹ֥א לֹא H3808 HTn לֹא or lowi; or loh (Deut. 3:11); a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles (as follows): X before, + or else, ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (X as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, + of a truth, + verily, for want, + whether, without.
25 תֵשָֽׁם יָשַׁם H3456 HVqi3fs יָשַׁם a primitive root; to lie waste: be desolate.