Numbers 14:4
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
אַחֵר
ʼachêr
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
שׁוּב
shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
Key Terms in This Verse
שׁוּב shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Study H7725 →Cross References
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Remember Lot’s wife.
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no...
And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen...
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
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