King James Version

Genesis 37:24

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

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וַיִּ֨קָּחֻ֔הוּvayiqachuhvand takeלָקַחconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and take”, the next action in the storyH3947to take (in the widest variety of applications)accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.וַיַּשְׁלִ֥כוּvayashlikhvand throwשָׁלַךְconjunction, verb, hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and throw”, the next action in the storyH7993to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.אֹת֖וֹotvoobject markerאֵתparticle, direct object marker, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “object marker”H853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)(as such unrepresented in English).הַבֹּ֑רָהhaborahthe cisternבּוֹרdefinite article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute, directional ending — “the cistern”, the ordinary formH953a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.וְהַבּ֣וֹרvehaborand the cisternבּוֹרconjunction, definite article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and the cistern”, the ordinary formH953a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.רֵ֔קreqemptiedרֵיקadjective, adjective, masculine, singular, absolute — “emptied”, the ordinary formH7386empty; figuratively, worthlessemptied(-ty), vain (fellow, man).אֵ֥יןeynelseאַיִןparticle, negative — “else”H369a non-entity; generally used as a negative particleelse, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare H370 (אַיִן).בּ֖וֹbvoinבּ֖וֹpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “in”inמָֽיִםmayimwaterמַיִםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

and they took him, and cast him into the pit — and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

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American Standard Version (1901)

and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Young’s Literal Translation

and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit [is] empty, there is no water in it.

World English Bible

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

Darby Translation

and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty — there was no water in it.

Douay-Rheims

And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

and they took him, and cast him into the pit — and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, it had not water.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν, ἔῤῥιψαν εἰς τὸν λάκκον· ὁ δὲ λάκκος κενὸς, ὕδωρ οὐκ εἶχε.