Genesis 9:23
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Young's Literal Translation
And Shem taketh—Japheth also—the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces [are] backward, and their father’s nakedness they have not seen.

King James Bible
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Hebrew
Then Shem
שֵׁ֨ם (šêm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8035: Shem -- 'name', oldest son of Noah

and Japheth
וָיֶ֜פֶת (wā·ye·p̄eṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3315: Japheth -- a son of Noah

took
וַיִּקַּח֩ (way·yiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

a garment
הַשִּׂמְלָ֗ה (haś·śim·lāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8071: A dress, a mantle

and placed
וַיָּשִׂ֙ימוּ֙ (way·yā·śî·mū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

it across
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

their shoulders,
שְׁכֶ֣ם (šə·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7926: The neck, as the place of burdens, the spur of a, hill

and walking
וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ (way·yê·lə·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

backward,
אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔ית (’ă·ḥō·ran·nîṯ)
Adverb
Strong's 322: Backwards

they covered
וַיְכַסּ֕וּ (way·ḵas·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

their father’s
אֲבִיהֶ֑ם (’ă·ḇî·hem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

nakedness.
עֶרְוַ֣ת (‘er·waṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6172: Nakedness

Their faces
וּפְנֵיהֶם֙ (ū·p̄ə·nê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

were turned away
אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔ית (’ă·ḥō·ran·nîṯ)
Adverb
Strong's 322: Backwards

so that they did not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

see
רָאֽוּ׃ (rā·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7200: To see

their father’s
אֲבִיהֶ֖ם (’ă·ḇî·hem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

nakedness.
וְעֶרְוַ֥ת (wə·‘er·waṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6172: Nakedness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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