Genesis 37:25
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation
And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take [them] down to Egypt.

King James Bible
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] down to Egypt.

Hebrew
And as they sat down
וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֮ (way·yê·šə·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

to eat
לֶֽאֱכָל־ (le·’ĕ·ḵāl-)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

a meal,
לֶחֶם֒ (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

they looked up
וַיִּשְׂא֤וּ (way·yiś·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

and saw
וְהִנֵּה֙ (wə·hin·nêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

a caravan
אֹרְחַ֣ת (’ō·rə·ḥaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 736: A traveling company, caravan

of Ishmaelites
יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים (yiš·mə·‘ê·lîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3459: Ishmaelites -- descendant of Ishmael

coming
בָּאָ֖ה (bā·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

from Gilead.
מִגִּלְעָ֑ד (mig·gil·‘āḏ)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1568: Gilead -- a region in Palestine, also the name of several Israelites

Their camels
וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣ם (ū·ḡə·mal·lê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1581: A camel

were carrying
נֹֽשְׂאִ֗ים (nō·śə·’îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

spices,
נְכֹאת֙ (nə·ḵōṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5219: (a spice) perhaps tragacanth gum

balm,
וּצְרִ֣י (ū·ṣə·rî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6875: Distillation, balsam

and myrrh
וָלֹ֔ט (wā·lōṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3910: A gum, ladanum

on their way
הוֹלְכִ֖ים (hō·wl·ḵîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

down
לְהוֹרִ֥יד (lə·hō·w·rîḏ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

to Egypt.
מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃ (miṣ·rā·yə·māh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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