Genesis 42:2
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

Young's Literal Translation
he saith also, ‘Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;’

King James Bible
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

Hebrew
“Look,”
הִנֵּ֣ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

he added,
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“I have heard
שָׁמַ֔עְתִּי (šā·ma‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

that
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

there is
יֶשׁ־ (yeš-)
Adverb
Strong's 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

grain
שֶׁ֖בֶר (še·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7668: Corn, grain

in Egypt.
בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם (bə·miṣ·rā·yim)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

Go down
רְדוּ־ (rə·ḏū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

there
שָׁ֙מָּה֙ (šām·māh)
Adverb | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

and buy
וְשִׁבְרוּ־ (wə·šiḇ·rū-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7666: To deal in grain

some for us,
לָ֣נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

so that we may live
וְנִחְיֶ֖ה (wə·niḥ·yeh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

and not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

die.”
נָמֽוּת׃ (nā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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