Genesis 45:1-15

^I “Joseph” = Yoseph. From yasaph (to add, increase, continue, exceed). This is Joseph, meaning “he increases” or “let him add.”
^II “could” = yakol. This is to be able, endure, overcome, prevail.
^III “control” = aphaq. 7x in OT. This is to be strong, force, control, hold. It can also be to abstain or force oneself.
^IV “stood” = natsab. This is to station, appoint, establish, take a stand.
^V “cried out” = qara. This is to call or call out – to call someone by name. Also used more broadly for calling forth.

^VI “send” = yatsa. This is to go or come out, bring forth, appear. It is to go out in a literal or figurative sense.
^VII “everyone” = kol + ish. Literally “every man.” Ish is perhaps from enosh (human, humankind, mortal); from anash (to be weak, sick, or frail). This is man, husband, another, or humankind.
^VIII “one” = ish. Same as “everyone” in v1. See note VII above.
^IX “stayed” = amad. This is to stand up in a literal or figurative sense. So it can be establish, continue, endure, take a stand, act, be a servant, stand still, remain, stand against an enemy.
^X “made…known” = yada. This is to know, acknowledge, advise, answer, be aware, be acquainted with. Properly, this is to figure something out by seeing. It includes ideas of observation, recognition, and care about something. It can be used causatively for instruction, designation, and punishment.
^XI “brothers” = ach. This is brother, kindred, another, other, like. It is literally brother, but it can also be someone who is similar, resembling, or related to.

^XII “wept so loudly” = natan + et + qol + beki. Literally “gave voice of weeping.” Natan is to give, put, set, offer. It is to give literally or figuratively. Qol is a sound, used often for human voices. Also used when God speaks or angels, animals or instruments. It can be a cry or a noise, thunder or earthquakes and so on. Beki is from bakah (to weep, complain, lament). This is ongoing weeping, overflowing. By analogy, this can also mean dripping.
^XIII “Egyptians” = Mitsri. From the same as mitsrayim (Egypt); perhaps from matsor (besieged or fortified place, bulwark, entrenchment; something hemmed in; a siege or distress or fastness); from tsur (to confine, besiege, to cramp). This is Egyptian.
^XIV “heard” = shama. This is to hear, call, consent, or consider. It implies listening intelligently, giving attention, and, because of these two factors, obedience and action are often implied.
^XV “household” = bayit. Probably from banah (to build, make, set up, obtain children; to build literally or figuratively). This is house, court, family, palace, temple.
^XVI “Pharaoh” = Paroh. From Egyptian pr (palace, pharaoh; literally house + great). This is Pharaoh, a title for Egyptian kings. See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pharaoh

^XVII “father” = ab. This is father, chief, or ancestor. It is father in a literal or figurative sense.
^XVIII “alive” = chay. From chayah (to live or keep alive literally or figuratively). This is alive, living, lifetime. It can also be used to describe someone’s age. It can refer to animals, plants, water, or a company or congregation of people. It is life in a very broad sense.
^XIX “answer” = anah. This is answer, respond, announce, sing, shout, or testify. It means to pay attention, which implies responding and, by extension, starting to talk. Used in a specific sense for singing, shouting, testifying, etc.
^XX “dismayed” = bahal. To be afraid or dismayed or amazed. This is deep trembling within. So, figuratively, it refers to being suddenly agitated. This implies moving or acting quickly/anxiously.
^XXI “presence” = paneh. From panah (to turn, face, appear). This is face in a literal or figurative sense. It could be face, presence, anger, respect. It can also be used of God to indicate divine favor or presence.

^XXII “come closer” = nagash. This is to draw, bring, or come near. It is approaching for any reason – as an attack on an enemy, in order to worship, to make an argument. It can also be used as a euphemism for sex.
^XXIII {untranslated} = na. This particle is used for requests or for urging. It can be we pray, now, I ask you, oh. This is the same “na” in “hosanna.”
^XXIV “sold” = makar. This is to sell – could be commerce/trade, a daughter to be married, someone into slavery. Figuratively, it can mean to surrender.
^XXV “Egypt” = Mitsrayim. Related to “Egyptians” in v2. See note XIII above.

^XXVI “distressed” = atsab. 17x in OT– 4x of humanity grieving God including Genesis 6:6 prior to the Flood. This is properly to carve. So it can mean to create or fashion. Figuratively, it means to hurt, grieve, worry, anger, or displease.
^XXVII “angry” = charah. Perhaps related to charar (to be hot, burn, glow, melt, be scorched; figuratively, to incite passion, be angry). This is to be displeased, burn with anger, glow, become warn. Figuratively it is a blaze of anger, zeal, or jealousy.
^XXVIII “yourselves” = ayin. Literally “your eyes.” This is eye in a literal or figurative sense so eye, appearance, favor, or a fountain (the eye of the landscape).
^XXIX “here” = hennah. Perhaps from hen (lo! Behold! If, though; an expression of surprise). This is here in a location or here in a time, i.e. now.

^XXX “God” = Elohim.
^XXXI “sent” = shalach. This is to send out, away, send for, forsake. It can also mean to divorce or set a slave free.
^XXXII “before” = paneh. Literally “before your faces.” Same as “presence” in v3. See note XXI above.
^XXXIII “preserve life” = michyah. Related to “alive” in v3. 8x in OT. From chayah (see note XVIII above). This is sustenance, reviving, that which preserves life.

^XXXIV “famine” = raab. From raeb (to be hungry). This is hunger, death, or hunger from famine.
^XXXV “in” = qereb. Perhaps from qarab (to come near or approach). This is among, in the midst, before, the center It is the inward part, whether literal or figurative. It can also be used for the heart, the site of thoughts and feelings. This word is also used as a technical term for the entrails of the animals who are sacrificed.
^XXXVI “land” = erets. Root may mean to be firm. This is earth, ground, field land, or country.
^XXXVII “plowing” = charish. 3x in OT. From charash (to scratch, which implies etching or plowing; to manufacture regardless of materials used; figuratively, to devise or conceal; a sense of secrecy so being silent or left alone or speechless). This is plowing or the season in which one plows. It can also refer to the ground.
^XXXVIII “harvest” = qatsiyr. From qatsar (to cut down, be short, reap, curtail; used especially for harvesting grass or grain; figuratively, to be discouraged or grieve). This is branch, harvest, one who harvests. Properly, this means severed, reaped. It is the crop being harvested, the time of harvest or the one who harvests. It can also be a bough.

^XXXIX “before” = paneh. Literally “before your faces.” Same as “presence” in v3. See note XXI above.
^XL “preserve” = sim. This is to put or place in a literal or figurative sense. It can be appoint, care, change, make, and may other things.
^XLI “remnant” = sheerit. From shaar (properly, swelling up i.e. being left over; a remnant, remaining, being redundant). This is a remainder, residue, or survivor. It can also refer to posterity.
^XLII “earth” = erets. Same as “land” in v6. See note XXXVI above.

^XLIII “keep alive” = chayah. Related to “alive” in v3 & “preserve life” in v5. See note XVIII above.
^XLIV “many” = gadol. From gadal (to grow up, become great, become wealthy – to advance. The root meaning may be to twist in the sense of the process of growing). This is great, high, bigger, noble, old, marvelous. It can also refer to someone who is powerful or distinguished.
^XLV “survivors” = peletah. From paliyt (fugitive, refugee, or one who escaped); from palat (to escape, slip out, deliver, calve). This is deliverance or escape. It is the remnant that got away.
^XLVI “made” = sim. Same as “preserve” in v7. See note XL above.
^XLVII “lord” = adon. From a root that means ruling or being sovereign. This is lord, master, or owner.
^XLVIII “ruler” = mashal. This is to rule, reign, govern, have authority, wield.

^XLIX “hurry” = mahar. This is being liquid, which implies flowing. So, this word implies hurrying forward, whether in a positive or negative sense.
^L “go up” = alah. This is to go up, approach, ascend, be high, be a priority; to arise in a literal or figurative sense.
^LI “son” = ben. Related to “household” in v2. Perhaps from banah (see note XV above). This is son, age, child. It is son in a literal or figurative sense.
^LII “come down” = yarad. This is to go down, descend; going down in a literal or figurative sense. It can be going to the shore or a boundary, bringing down an enemy.
^LIII “delay” = amad. Same as “stayed” in v1. See note IX above.

^LIV “settle” = yashab. This is to sit and so to remain and so to dwell. It is sitting for any reason – as a judge, in order to ambush, or just sitting quietly. Causatively, this can mean settling or marrying. This can also mean continue, endure, or establish.
^LV “Goshen” = Goshen. 15x in OT. Similar to Arabic j-sh-m (to labor) OR may be related to Egyptian qas (“inundated land”) OR Egyptian pa-qas (“pouring forth”) OR from Gasmu (“rulers of Bedouin Qedarites who occupied the eastern Delta from the 7^th century BC”). This is Goshen. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Goshen
^LVI “be” = hayah. This is to be or become, to happen.
^LVII “near” = qarob. Related to “in” in v6. From qarab (see note XXXV above). This is near whether nearby, related, near in time, or allied.

^LVIII “children” = ben. Same as “son” in v9. See note LI above.
^LIX “flocks” = tson. This is a flock of sheep and goats.
^LX “herds” = baqar. From baqar (to plow, break forth; figuratively, to inquire, inspect, consider). This is cattle – an animal used for plowing.
^LXI “provide” = kul. This is to hold in. So, it can be to contain, measure, guide, or feed. It can also mean to be able to or sustain.
^LXII “come to poverty” = yarash. This is inheriting or dispossessing. It refers to occupying or colonizing – taking territory by driving out the previous inhabitants and living there instead of them. By implication, it can mean to seize or rob, to expel, ruin, or impoverish.

^LXIII “now” = hinneh. Related to “here” in v5. From hen (see note XXIX above). This is to draw attention, show suddenness or surprise, or to emphasize the importance of the coming statement. See! Lo! Behold!
^LXIV “eyes” = ayin. Same as “yourselves” in v5. See note XXVIII above.
^LXV “Benjamin” = Binyamin. Related to “household” in v2 & “son” in v9. From ben (see note LI above) + yamin (right hand or side; that which is stronger or more agile; the south); {perhaps yamam (to go or choose the right, use the right hand; to be physically fit or firm)}. This is Benjamin, meaning “son of the right hand.” It could refer to Benjamin himself, his offspring, their tribe, or their territory.
^LXVI “see” = raah. This is to see in a literal or figurative sense so stare, advise, think, view.
^LXVII “mouth” = peh. This is mouth in a literal or figurative sense. So, more literally, it can be beak or jaws. More figuratively, it refers to speech, commands, or promises.
^LXVIII “speaks” = dabar. This is generally to speak, answer, declare, or command. It might mean to arrange and so to speak in a figurative sense as arranging words.

^LXIX “tell” = nagad. This is to declare, make conspicuous, stand in front, manifest, predict, explain.
^LXX “how greatly” = kol + kabol. Literally “of all my glory.” Kabod is from kabad (to be heavy, weighty, burdensome). This is weighty. Figuratively, glorious, abundant, riches, honor, splendor – a reference to one’s reputation or character. This word is often used to describe God and God’s presence.
^LXXI “bring…down” = yarad. Same as “come down” in v9. See note LII above.

^LXXII “fell” = naphal. This is to fall, whether by accident, to fall prostrate, or to fall in violent death. Figuratively, it can refer to personal ruin or calamity, a city falling, an attack or a falling away. It can also be a deep sleep or wasting away.
^LXXIII “neck” = tsavvar. Related to “Egyptians” in v2 & “Egypt” in v4. Perhaps from tsur (see note XIII above). This is the neck or the back of the neck.
^LXXIV “wept” = bakah. Related to “wept so loudly” in v2. See note XII above.
^LXXV “kissed” = nashaq. This is to kiss in a literal or figurative sense. It can mean to touch, rule, or equip with weapons.