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Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלsaid,וַיֹּאמֶר“Whyלָמָהdid you do me harmהֲרֵעֹתֶם לִיby tellingלְהַגִּידthe manלָאִישׁthat you still hadהַעוֹד לָכֶםa brother?”אָח
Genesis 43:6
Study it in the app“Israel said, “Why did you do me harm by telling the man that you still had a brother?””
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 43:6, word by word
- Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- did you do me harmהֲרֵעֹתֶםhareotem
do evil
To harm someone; evildoers.
Where else “hareotem” appears- by tellingהַגִּידhagid
tell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “hagid” appears- the manאִישׁish
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appears- a brotherאָחach
one another
Together with "one", it is used to say "one another".
Where else “ach” appears
The context
5But if you are not sending him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”
6 · This verse (above)
7They said, “The man asked closely about us and about our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?’ And we told him according to these words. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring down your brother’?”
To study Genesis 43 in a group
1. What it says
What did Judah ask of Jacob about Benjamin (vv. 8-10)?
2. What it means
What does Judah mean by “I will be surety for him” and “I will have sinned against you for all time” (v. 9)?
3. How I live it
How can you take responsibility for someone in your family?