Genesis 37:24

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And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, [his] coat of [many] colours that [was] on him;	And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it.	And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] down to Egypt.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And they took^H3947 him, and cast^H7993 him into a pit^H953: and the pit^H953 was empty^H7386, there was no water^H4325 in it.

Original Hebrew

וַיִּקָּחֻהוּ וַיַּשְׁלִכוּ אֹתֹו הַבֹּרָה וְהַבֹּור רֵק אֵין בֹּו מָיִם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יִּ֨קָּחֻ֔/הוּ	va/i.Yi.ka.Chu./hu	H3947	HC/Vqw3mp/Sp3ms	and/ they took/ him
וַ/יַּשְׁלִ֥כוּ	va/i.yash.Li.khu	H7993	HC/Vhw3mp	and/ they threw
אֹת֖/וֹ	'o.T/o	H853	HTo/Sp3ms	(obj.)/ him
הַ/בֹּ֑רָ/ה	ha./Bo.ra/h	H953	HTd/Ncmsa/Sd	the/ pit/ towards
וְ/הַ/בּ֣וֹר	ve./ha./Bor	H953	HC/Td/Ncmsa	and/ the/ pit
רֵ֔ק	Rek	H7386	HAamsa	(was) empty
אֵ֥ין	'ein	H369	HTn	there not
בּ֖/וֹ	b/o		HR/Sp3ms	in (the)/ it
מָֽיִם	Ma.yim	H4325	HNcmpa	(was) water

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H953 — בּוֹר (bôwr, bore): from בּוּר (in the sense of בֹּאר); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison); cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
H3947 — לָקַח (lâqach, law-kakh'): a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications); accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
H4325 — מַיִם (mayim, mah'-yim): dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen; [phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
H7386 — רֵיק (rêyq, rake): or (shorter) רֵק; from רוּק; empty; figuratively, worthless; emptied(-ty), vain (fellow, man).
H7993 — שָׁלַךְ (shâlak, shaw-lak): a primitive root; to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively); adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H369 — אַיִן (ʼayin, ah'-yin): as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle; else, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare אַיִן.
H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

and cast — Psalms 35:7, Lamentations 4:20
the pit — Psalms 40:2, Psalms 88:6, Psalms 88:8, Psalms 130:1-2, Jeremiah 38:6, Lamentations 3:52-55, Zechariah 9:11

Reciprocal references (1): Genesis 49:23

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