Genesis 44:19
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
Genesis 44:19 in other translations
| BSB | My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’ |
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| WEB | My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ |
| ASV | My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? |
| YLT | My lord hath asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother? |
| DARBY | My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? |
| BBE | My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother? |
| Webster | My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? |
What does Genesis 44:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:16-34
16-34. Judah said, What shall we say?--This address needs no comment--consisting at first of short, broken sentences, as if, under the overwhelming force of the speaker's emotions, his utterance were choked, it becomes more free and copious by the effort of speaking, as he proceeds. Every word finds its way to the heart; and it may well be imagined that Benjamin, who stood there speechless like a victim about to be…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 44:18-34
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The…
Genesis 44:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 44:19
- Genesis 43:7
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
- Genesis 43:29
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
- Genesis 42:7-10
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
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Context
- Genesis 44:18
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
- Genesis 44:19
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
- Genesis 44:20
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Genesis 44:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mi señor preguntó á sus siervos, diciendo: ¿Tenéis padre ó hermano? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mon seigneur a interrogé ses serviteurs, en disant: Avez-vous un père, ou un frère? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mein Herr fragte seine Knechte und sprach: Habt ihr noch einen Vater oder einen Bruder? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | dominus meus. Interrogasti prius servos tuos: Habetis patrem aut fratrem? |