The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 37:33

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast (vide Genesis 37:20) hath devoured him (this was precisely what his sons meant him to infer); Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces— טְרֹף טֹרַף, the inf.

abs. Kal with the Pual expressing undoubted certainty.

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