Genesis 42:27
the inn: Gen 43:21, Gen 44:11, Exo 4:24, Luk 2:7, Luk 10:34 inn: Malon, from loon, to stay, abide, lodge, denotes any place to stay and lodge in, particularly a place where travellers usually stop to lodge, which is generally near a well, where they fill their girbehs, or leathern bottles, with fresh water, and having unladen and clogged their camels, asses, etc., permit them to crop any little verdure there may be in the place, keeping watch over them by turns. Our word inn here gives us a false idea, there were no such places of entertainment in the desert which Joseph's brethren had to pass; nor are there any at the present day. The only accommodation such a place affords is either a well, or a khan, or caravanserai, which is generally no more than four bare walls, perfectly exposed, the place being open at the top, and furnishing a wretched lodging, and even these, it is probable, were not in use at this early period. Reciprocal: Gen 29:32 - his name Gen 42:35 - every man's Gen 43:20 - we came indeed down Gen 44:8 - the money Hag 2:17 - with blasting