Genesis 47:19 — King James Version← Study notes
“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.”
Genesis 47:19 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Genesis 47:1925 words
לָמָּהlāmāhTo what?
נָמוּתnāmûtDie
לְעֵינֶיךָləʿêneyḵāTo eye
גַּםgamAssemblage
אֲנַחְנוּʾănaḥənûWe
גַּםgamAssemblage
אַדְמָתֵנוּʾadəmātēnûSoil
קְנֵהqənēhErect
אֹתָנוּʾōtānû—
וְאֶתwəʾet—
אַדְמָתֵנוּʾadəmātēnûSoil
בַּלָּחֶםbalāḥemIn food
וְנִהְיֶהwənihəyehAnd exist
אֲנַחְנוּʾănaḥənûWe
וְאַדְמָתֵנוּwəʾadəmātēnûAnd soil
עֲבָדִיםʿăvādîmServant
לְפַרְעֹהləp̄arəʿōhTo Paroh
וְתֶןwətenAnd give
זֶרַעzeraʿSeed
וְנִחְיֶהwəniḥəyehAnd live
וְלֹאwəlōʾAnd not
נָמוּתnāmûtDie
וְהָאֲדָמָהwəhāʾădāmāhAnd the soil
לֹאlōʾNot
תֵשָׁםtēšāmLie waste
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