Genesis 18:28
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

Young's Literal Translation
peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous—dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?’ and He saith, ‘I destroy [it] not, if I find there forty and five.’

King James Bible
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].

Hebrew
suppose
א֠וּלַי (’ū·lay)
Adverb
Strong's 194: Perhaps

the fifty
חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים (ḥă·miš·šîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 2572: Fifty

righteous ones
הַצַּדִּיקִם֙ (haṣ·ṣad·dî·qim)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

lack
יַחְסְר֞וּן (yaḥ·sə·rūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease

five.
חֲמִשָּׁ֔ה (ḥă·miš·šāh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 2568: Five

Will you destroy
הֲתַשְׁחִ֥ית (hă·ṯaš·ḥîṯ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

the whole
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

city
הָעִ֑יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

for the lack of five?”
בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה (ba·ḥă·miš·šāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 2568: Five

He replied,
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

I find
אֶמְצָ֣א (’em·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

forty-five
אַרְבָּעִ֖ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 705: Forty

there,
שָׁ֔ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

I will not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

destroy [it].”
אַשְׁחִ֔ית (’aš·ḥîṯ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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