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Genesis 42

Gen. 42:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But Benjamin
Binyamiyn (Hebrew #1144)
son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Benjamin.
Pronounce: bin-yaw-mene'
Origin: from 1121 and 3225
, Joseph’s
Yowceph (Hebrew #3130)
let him add (or perhaps simply active participle adding); Joseph, the name of seven Israelites
KJV usage: Joseph. Compare 3084.
Pronounce: yo-safe'
Origin: future of 3254
brother
'ach (Hebrew #251)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1))
KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Pronounce: awkh
Origin: a primitive word
, Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
sent
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
not with his brethren
'ach (Hebrew #251)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1))
KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Pronounce: awkh
Origin: a primitive word
; for he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Lest peradventure
pen (Hebrew #6435)
properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest
KJV usage: (lest) (peradventure), that...not.
Pronounce: pane
Origin: from 6437
mischief
'acown (Hebrew #611)
hurt
KJV usage: mischief.
Pronounce: aws-sone'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
u befall him
qara' (Hebrew #7122)
a primitive root: to encounter, whether accidentally or in a hostile manner
KJV usage: befall, (by) chance, (cause to) come (upon), fall out, happen, meet.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
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Gen. 42:38• 38But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol. (Gen. 42:38)

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Cross References

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Benjamin.
Gen. 35:16‑19• 16And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
 17And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.
 18And it came to pass as her soul was departing--for she died--that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.
 19And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. (Gen. 35:16‑19)
Lest.
Gen. 42:38• 38But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol. (Gen. 42:38)
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Gen. 3:22• 22And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever …! (Gen. 3:22)
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Gen. 11:4• 4And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth. (Gen. 11:4)
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Gen. 33:1‑2• 1And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:
 2and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost. (Gen. 33:1‑2)
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Gen. 43:14,29• 14And the Almighty *God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved of children, am bereaved.
 29And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son! (Gen. 43:14,29)
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Gen. 44:20‑22,27‑34• 20And we said to my lord, We have an aged father, and a child born to him in his old age, yet young; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.
 21And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set mine eye on him.
 22And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, his father would die.
 27And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;
 28and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him again hitherto.
 29And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.
 30And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us,--seeing that his life is bound up with his life,
 31it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
 32For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty toward my father all my days.
 33And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;
 34for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me?--lest I see the evil that would come on my father. (Gen. 44:20‑22,27‑34)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.