Exodus 1:11
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
נָגַשׂ
nâgas
to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
עָנָה
ʻânâh
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
בָּנָה
bânâh
to build (literally and figuratively)
פַּרְעֹה
Parʻôh
Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings
עִיר
ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
רַעְמְסֵס
Raʻmᵉçêç
Rameses or Raamses, a place in Egypt
Key Terms in This Verse
נָגַשׂ nâgas
to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
Study H5065 →עָנָה ʻânâh
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Study H6031 →עִיר ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Study H5892 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his...
And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
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