Genesis 44:19
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My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother.

Genesis 42:7-10 And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life. . . .

Genesis 43:7,29 But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you? . . .

Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
18Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art. 19My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother.20And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.…
Cross References
Genesis 43:7
But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?

Genesis 44:20
And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.

Lexicon
My lord
אֲדֹנִ֣י (’ă·ḏō·nî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 113: Sovereign, controller

asked
שָׁאַ֔ל (šā·’al)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7592: To inquire, to request, to demand

his servants,
עֲבָדָ֖יו (‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5650: Slave, servant

‘Do you have
הֲיֵשׁ־ (hă·yêš-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

a father
אָ֖ב (’āḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

or
אוֹ־ (’ōw-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 176: Desire, if

a brother?’
אָֽח׃ (’āḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )


Additional Translations
My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father, or a brother?

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

Sir, thou askedst thy servants, saying, Have ye a father or a brother?

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

My lord hath asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother?
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