Genesis 44:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

World English Bible · Public Domain

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שִׁבְרוּ

shâbar

H7666

“buy grain”

Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 21× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 41:56

Full BDB Definition

Origin: denominative from H7668

TWOT: 2322

to buy or purchase grain - (Qal) to buy grain - (Hiphil) to sell grain

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 →

7: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שִׁבְרוּ to buy grain H7666 — appearing just 21 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שִׁבְרוּ to buy grain H7666 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
3 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
שֻׁ֖בוּ Qal · Imperative
שִׁבְרוּ Qal · Imperative

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 12 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

Topical passages linked to Genesis 44:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 43:2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
Genesis 43:5 but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Genesis 44:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אָבִ֑ינוּ שֻׁ֖בוּ שִׁבְרוּ לָ֥נוּ מְעַט אֹֽכֶל

Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 44:25 Septuagint · lemma form

εἶπον δέ ἐγώ ὁ πατήρ ἐγώ βαδίζω πάλιν ἀγοράζω ἐγώ μικρός βρῶμα

And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וַאֲמַר אָבוּנָא תּוּבוּ זְבוּנוּ לָנָא זְעֵיר עִיבוּרָא

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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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וַאֲמַר אָבוּנָא תּוּבוּ זְבוּנוּ לָנָא קָלִיל עִיבּוּרָא

And our father said to us, Return, and buy us a little corn.

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.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 44:25 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.

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John Gill's Exposition

And our father said,.... After some time, when the corn was almost consumed they had bought in Egypt:

go again, and buy us a little food; that may suffice fill the famine is over; see Gen 43:1.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâbar (“to buy grain”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word shâbar carries the sense “to buy grain.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 41:56, which shares the word «to buy grain», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַיֹּ֖אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.