Genesis 23:4
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Young's Literal Translation
‘A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.’

King James Bible
I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Hebrew
“I
אָנֹכִ֖י (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

am a stranger
גֵּר־ (gêr-)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1616: A guest, a foreigner

and an outsider
וְתוֹשָׁ֥ב (wə·ṯō·wō·šāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8453: Resident alien

among you.
עִמָּכֶ֑ם (‘im·mā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

Give
תְּנ֨וּ (tə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

me
לִ֤י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

a burial
קֶ֙בֶר֙ (qe·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6913: A grave, sepulcher

site
אֲחֻזַּת־ (’ă·ḥuz·zaṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 272: Something seized, a possession

among you
עִמָּכֶ֔ם (‘im·mā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

so that I can bury
וְאֶקְבְּרָ֥ה (wə·’eq·bə·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 6912: To inter

my dead.”
מֵתִ֖י (mê·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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