Genesis 43:2

And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
up	כִּלּוּ֙ ki.Lu	H3615	to end · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person common plural
corn	הַשֶּׁ֔בֶר ha.She.ver	H7668	grain (as if broken into kernels) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
out	הֵבִ֖יאוּ he.Vi.'u	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural
Egypt	מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם mi.mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · preposition + proper noun, a place name
father	אֲבִיהֶ֔ם 'a.vi.Hem	H1	father · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
said	וַיֹּ֤אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
again	שֻׁ֖בוּ Shu.vu	H7725	to turn back (hence · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
buy	שִׁבְרוּ shiv.ru-	H7666	to deal in grain · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
little	מְעַט me.'at-	H4592	a little or few (often adverbial or compar.) · noun, common masculine singular construct
food	אֹֽכֶל 'O.khel	H400	food · noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Genesis 42:1-2 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
Genesis 43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
Genesis 43:20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
Proverbs 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 31:16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1 Timothy 6:6-8 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:1-10

Here, 1. Jacob urges his sons to go and buy more corn in Egypt, Gen 43:1, Gen 43:2. The famine continued; and the corn they had bought was all spent, for it is meat that perisheth. Jacob, as a good master of a family, is in care to provide for those of his own house food convenient; and shall not God provide for his children, for the household of faith? Jacob bids them go again and buy a little food; now, in time of scarcity, a little must suffice, for nature is content with a little. 2. Judah urges him to consent that Benjamin should go down with them, how much soever it went against his feelings and previous determination. Note, It is not at all inconsistent with the honour and duty which…

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John Gill on Genesis 43:2

And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt,.... Which, in so numerous a family as Jacob's was, having so many children, grandchildren, and servants, what nine men on so many asses could bring with them must be consumed in a short time, how long cannot be said; no doubt they lived sparingly on it in such a time of scarcity, to make it last as long as they could, and perhaps only he, his children and grandchildren, might eat of it; the servants, as Calvin observes, might live on meaner food, as acorns, herbs, and roots; and it must not be thought that all this corn was eaten up entirely, and none left, but the far greater part of it, and but very l…

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John Calvin on Genesis 43:1-2

And the famine was sore in the land. In this chapter is recorded the second journey of the sons of Jacob into Egypt, when the former supply of provision had been exhausted. It may, however, here be asked, how Jacob could have supported his family, even for a few days, with so small a quantity of corn: for, suppose it to be granted that several asses were conducted by each of the brethren, what was this to sustain three hundred persons? [166] For, since Abraham had a much larger number of servants, and mention has been made above of the servants of Isaac; it is incredible that Jacob was so entirely destitute, as to have no servants left. If we say, that he, being a stranger, had been compelle…

Dictionary and topics

Judah · .Goes down into Egypt for corn (grain) — .Goes down into Egypt for corn (grain)

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Genesis 43:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:1-10

John Gill on Genesis 43:2

John Calvin on Genesis 43:1-2

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 43:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:1-10

John Gill on Genesis 43:2

John Calvin on Genesis 43:1-2

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 43:1-7

Rashi on Genesis 43:2