Genesis 42:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Young's Literal Translation
send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not—Pharaoh liveth! surely ye [are] spies;’

King James Bible
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there be any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.

Hebrew
Send
שִׁלְח֨וּ (šil·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

one
אֶחָד֮ (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

of your number
מִכֶּ֣ם (mik·kem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

to get
וְיִקַּ֣ח (wə·yiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

your brother;
אֲחִיכֶם֒ (’ă·ḥî·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 251: A brother, )

the rest of you
וְאַתֶּם֙ (wə·’at·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

will be confined
הֵאָ֣סְר֔וּ (hê·’ā·sə·rū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 631: To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle

so that the truth
הַֽאֱמֶ֖ת (ha·’ĕ·meṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness

of your words
דִּבְרֵיכֶ֔ם (diḇ·rê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

may be tested.
וְיִבָּֽחֲנוּ֙ (wə·yib·bā·ḥă·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 974: To test, to investigate

If
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

they are untrue,
לֹ֕א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

then as surely as Pharaoh
פַרְעֹ֔ה (p̄ar·‘ōh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6547: Pharaoh -- a title of Egypt kings

lives,
חֵ֣י (ḥê)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

you
אַתֶּֽם׃ (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are spies!”
מְרַגְּלִ֖ים (mə·rag·gə·lîm)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 7270: To walk along, to reconnoiter, to be a, tale-bearer, to lead about

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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