speak and say. Note the idiom, generally rendered "answer and say", where the first verb must always be rendered according to the context. Here "confess and say".
Syrian. an Aramaean: i.e. Jacob.
ready to perish. perishing. Genesis 42:1; Genesis 42:2.
mighty. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and Septuagint, read "and mighty". Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6), thus produced.