Genesis 37:22
Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.This verse in the real world
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In what words
- בּוֹרbôwra pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
- רְאוּבֵןRᵉʼûwbênReuben, a son of Jacob
- שָׁפַךְshâphakto spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also
- שָׁלַךְshâlakto throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
- נָצַלnâtsalto snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
- מִדְבָּרmidbâra pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also spe
- דָּםdâmblood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of
- שָׁלַחshâlachto send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.