Exodus 3:16
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
אַבְרָהָם
ʼAbrâhâm
Abraham, the later name of Abram
יִצְחָק
Yitschâq
Jitschak (or Isaac), son of Abraham
יַעֲקֹב
Yaʻăqôb
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
פָּקַד
pâqad
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
Key Terms in This Verse
פָּקַד pâqad
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Study H6485 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →Cross References
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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