Genesis 42:23 - Exposition

And they knew not (while they talked in what they imagined to be a foreign dialect to the Egyptian viceroy) that Joseph understood them; —literally, heard (so as to understand what was said)— for he spake unto them by an interpreter— literally, for the interpreter . ( חַמְּלִיץ , the hiph. part; with the art; of לוּץ , to speak barbarously, in the hiph. to act as an interpreter), i.e. the official Court interpreter, ἑρμηνευτής ( LXX .), was between them .