1 Samuel 6:7

“So now, take and make one new cart and two nursing cows on which no yoke has come and hitch the cows to the cart, and take their calves back home from behind them.”

1 Samuel 6:7 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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1 Samuel 6:7, word by word

takeקְחוּkechu

take

To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.

Where else “kechu” appears
and makeעֲשׂוּasu

make

To build or create something.

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oneאֶחָתechat

one

The number one; just one and no more.

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newחֲדָשָׁהchadasha

new

New.

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cartעֲגָלָהagala

cart, wagon

Cart, wagon drawn by oxen.

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and twoשְׁתֵּיshete

two

A pair, a quantity of two.

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nursingעָלוֹתalot

nursing

Nursing: said of females suckling their young.

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cowsפָרוֹתfarot

cow

Cow, heifer.

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yokeעֹלol

yoke

Yoke: the wooden piece joining two oxen; figuratively, being subject to another.

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has comeעָלָהala

go up

To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.

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and hitchאֲסַרְתֶּםasartem

bind

To tie with ropes, or yoke animals.

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and takeהֲשֵׁיבֹתֶםhashevotem

bring back

To return something, restore.

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their calvesבְּנֵיbene

young

An animal's offspring, its little one.

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back homeבָּיְתָbayta

house

A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.

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The context

6And why should you make your heart insensitive as Egypt and Pharaoh made their heart insensitive? Was it not when he had dealt harshly with them that they let them go, and they went?

7 · This verse (above)

8And take the ark of YHWH and put it on the cart, and the objects of gold that you are restoring to him as a guilt offering you shall put in the chest at its side; and send it off, and let it go.

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