וַיְהִי֙ כִּ֣י עָלִ֔ינוּ אֶֽל עַבְדְּךָ֖ אָבִ֑י וַנַּ֨גֶּד ל֔וֹ אֵ֖ת דִּבְרֵ֥י אֲדֹנִֽי
It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 44:24
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 44:24 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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King James Version Public Domain
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And it happened when we went up to your servant my father, then we related to him the words of my lord.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
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King James Version Public Domain
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So when we came vnto thy seruant our father, and shewed him what my lord had sayd,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
`And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And it comes to pass, that we have come up to your servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my master.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And it happened when we went up to your servant my father, then we related to him the words of my lord.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And it came to pass, when we came to thy servant, my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
So when we went back to your servant, our father, we explained to him everything you had told us.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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אֲדֹנִֽי
ʼâdôwn
H113
“lord · my”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- Appears 329× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 18:3
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
firm, strong, lord, master
- lord, master
- reference to men
- superintendent of household, of affairs
- master
- king
- reference to God
- the Lord God
- Lord of the whole earth
- lords, kings
- reference to men
- proprietor of hill of Samaria
- master
- husband
- prophet
- governor
- prince
- king
- reference to God
- Lord of lords (probably = "thy husband, Yahweh" )
- my lord, my master
- reference to men
- master
- husband
- prophet
- prince
- king
- father
- Moses
- priest
- theophanic angel
- captain
- general recognition of superiority
- reference to God
- my Lord, my Lord and my God
- Adonai (parallel with Yahweh)
- וַיְהִי֙ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- כִּ֣י kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
- עָלִ֔ינוּ ʻâlâh H5927 “to go up” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural
- אֶֽל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- עַבְדְּךָ֖ ʻebed H5650 “servant · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אָבִ֑י ʼâb H1 “father · my” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- וַנַּ֨גֶּד nâgad H5046 “and · to make known” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural
- אֵ֖ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- דִּבְרֵ֥י dâbâr H1697 “words of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אֲדֹנִֽי ʼâdôwn H113 “lord · my” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 prepositions
- 1 conjunction
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיְהִי֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- עָלִ֔ינוּ Qal · Perfect
- וַנַּ֨גֶּד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Genesis 44:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 42:29–34 They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
γίγνομαι δέ ἡνίκα ἀναβαίνω πρός ὁ παῖς σύ πατήρ δέ ἐγώ ἀποἀγγέλλω αὐτός ὁ ῥῆμα ὁ κύριος
And it came to pass, when we went up to your servant our father, we reported to him the words of our lord.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַהֲוָה כַּד סְלֵיקְנָא לְעַבְדָּךְ אַבָּא וְחַוֵּינָא לֵהּ יָת פִּתְגָּמֵי רִבּוֹנִי
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַהֲוָה כַּד סְלִיקְנָא לְעַבְדָךְ אַבָּא וּתְנֵינָא לֵיהּ יַת פִּתְגָמֵי רִבּוֹנִי
And it was when we went up to thy servant our father, we related to him my lord's words.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâdôwn (“lord”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼâdôwn carries the sense “lord.” How does it shape the verse?
- Genesis 42:29–34 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «וַיְהִי֙» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Ramban (Nachmanides) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 44:24 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ramban (Nachmanides)
Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)
Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.