And Reuben
R'uwben (reh-oo-bane')
see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob -- Reuben.
said
'amar (aw-mar')
to say (used with great latitude)
unto them Shed
shaphak (shaw-fak')
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out -- cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.
no blood
dam (dawm)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
but cast
shalak (shaw-lak)
to throw out, down or away -- adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
him into this pit
bowr (bore)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) -- cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
that is in the wilderness
midbar (mid-bawr')
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs) -- desert, south, speech, wilderness.
and lay
shalach (shaw-lakh')
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
no hand
yad (yawd)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
upon him that he might rid
natsal (naw-tsal')
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
him out of their hands
yad (yawd)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
to deliver
shuwb (shoob)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively
him to his father
'ab (awb)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application) -- chief, (fore-)father(-less), patrimony, principal. Compare names in Abi-.
again
shuwb (shoob)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively
