Exodus 5:14
Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
שֹׁטֵר
shôṭêr
properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
פַּרְעֹה
Parʻôh
Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings
נָגַשׂ
nâgas
to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
שְׁאֵל
shᵉʼêl
{to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand}
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
מָלֵא
mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
חֹק
chôq
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
לְבֵנָה
lᵉbênâh
a brick (from the whiteness of the clay)
תְּמוֹל
tᵉmôwl
properly, ago, i.e. a (short or long) time since; especially yesterday, or day before yesterday
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
אֶתְמוֹל
ʼethmôwl
heretofore; definitely yesterday
Key Terms in This Verse
חֹק chôq
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
Study H2706 →נָגַשׂ nâgas
to drive (an animal, a workman, a debtor, an army); by implication, to tax, harass, tyrannize
Study H5065 →שְׁאֵל shᵉʼêl
{to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand}
Study H7593 →תְּמוֹל tᵉmôwl
properly, ago, i.e. a (short or long) time since; especially yesterday, or day before yesterday
Study H8543 →שֹׁטֵר shôṭêr
properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
Study H7860 →מָלֵא mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
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