Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Then asked he after their welfare, and said - Is it well with your aged father, of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

New American Standard Bible

Then he asked them about their welfare, and said, “Is your old father well, of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”

King James Version

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

Holman Bible

He asked if they were well, and he said, “How is your elderly father that you told me about? Is he still alive?”

International Standard Version

Joseph asked them how they had been doing. "Is your father well, the older gentleman about whom you spoke?" he inquired. "Is he still alive?"

A Conservative Version

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

American Standard Version

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

Amplified

He asked them about their well-being, and said, “Is your old father well, of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”

Bible in Basic English

And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?

Darby Translation

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

Julia Smith Translation

And he will ask them concerning peace, and he will say, Is it peace to your father, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet living?

King James 2000

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?

Lexham Expanded Bible

And {he greeted them} and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"

Modern King James verseion

And he asked them as to their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he welcomed them courteously saying, "Is your father, that old man which ye told me of, in good health? And is he yet alive?"

NET Bible

He asked them how they were doing. Then he said, "Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?"

New Heart English Bible

He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

Webster

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

World English Bible

He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

Youngs Literal Translation

and he asketh of them of peace, and saith, 'Is your father well? the aged man of whom ye have spoken, is he yet alive?'

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he asked
שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

שׁלם שׁלום 
Shalowm 
Usage: 236

and said

Usage: 0

שׁלם שׁלום 
Shalowm 
Usage: 236

the old man
זקן 
Zaqen 
Usage: 178

of whom ye spake

Usage: 0

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

A Feast At Joseph's Palace

26 So when Joseph came into the house, they brought in to him the present which was in their hand into the house, - and bowed themselves down to him to the earth. 27 Then asked he after their welfare, and said - Is it well with your aged father, of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28 And they said - It is well with thy servant our father, he is yet alive. And they bent their heads and bowed them-selves down.



Cross References

Genesis 42:11

All of us, are, sons of one man, - honest men, are we: thy servants are not, spies.

Genesis 42:13

And they said: We, thy twelve servants, are, brethren, sons of one man in the and of Canaan, - and lo! the youngest: is with our father this day, and, the one, is not!

Genesis 37:14

So he said to him - Go, I pray thee, look after the welfare of thy brethren, and the welfare of the flock, and bring me back word. And he sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came in towards Shechem.

Genesis 41:16

And Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, Not to me, doth it pertain! May, God grant in answer, the prosperity of Pharaoh!

Genesis 43:7

And they said, The man did ask I concerning ourselves and concerning our kindred saying - Is your father yet alive? Have ye a brother? So we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we, at all know, that he would say, Bring down your brother?

Exodus 18:7

So Moses went forth to meet his father-in-law, and bowed himself down to him and kissed him, and they asked each other of their welfare, - and came into the tent.

Judges 18:15

So they turned aside thither, and entered into the house of the young man the Levite, the house of Micah, - and asked him of his welfare.

1 Samuel 17:22

Then David entrusted the provisions that were upon him to the care of the keeper of the stores, and ran unto the ranks, - and came and asked for the welfare of his brethren.

1 Samuel 25:5

David, therefore, sent ten young men, - and David said unto the young men, - Go up to Carmel, and enter in unto Nabal, and ye shall ask him, in my name, of his welfare;

1 Chronicles 18:10

he sent Hadoram his son unto King David, to ask after his welfare, and to bless him, because he had made war against Hadarezer and had smitten him, for, a man making wars against Tou, had been Hadarezer, - and he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and bronze;

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