Jonah 1:6
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

Young's Literal Translation
And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, ‘What—to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.’

King James Bible
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Hebrew
The captain
רַ֣ב (raḇ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

approached
וַיִּקְרַ֤ב (way·yiq·raḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7126: To come near, approach

him and said,
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“How
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

can you
לְּךָ֣ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

sleep?
נִרְדָּ֑ם (nir·dām)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7290: To be in or fall into heavy sleep

Get up
ק֚וּם (qūm)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

[and] call
קְרָ֣א (qə·rā)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

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

your God.
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

Perhaps
אוּלַ֞י (’ū·lay)
Adverb
Strong's 194: Perhaps

this God
הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

will consider us,
יִתְעַשֵּׁ֧ת (yiṯ·‘aš·šêṯ)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6245: To be sleek, glossy, to excogitate

so that
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

we may not perish.”
נֹאבֵֽד׃ (nō·ḇêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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