Genesis 44:34
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Young's Literal Translation
for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.’

King James Bible
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Hebrew
For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

how
אֵיךְ֙ (’êḵ)
Interjection
Strong's 349: How?, how!, where

can I go back
אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה (’e·‘ĕ·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

my father
אָבִ֔י (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1: Father

without
אֵינֶ֣נּוּ (’ê·nen·nū)
Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

the boy?
וְהַנַּ֖עַר (wə·han·na·‘ar)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

I could not bear
פֶּ֚ן (pen)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

to see
אֶרְאֶ֣ה (’er·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the misery
בָרָ֔ע (ḇā·rā‘)
Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

would overwhelm
יִמְצָ֖א (yim·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

[him].”
אָבִֽי׃ (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1: Father

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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