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And the Egyptiansוַ הַמִּצְרִיםtreated us badlyיָּרֵעוּ אֹתָנוּand afflicted usוַיְעַנּוּנוּand laidוַיִּתְּנוּon usעָלֵינוּhardקָשָׁהbondage.עֲבֹדָה
Deuteronomy 26:6
Study it in the app“And the Egyptians treated us badly and afflicted us and laid on us hard bondage.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 26:6, word by word
- And the Egyptiansמִּצְרִיםmitsrim
Egyptian
Egyptian.
Where else “mitsrim” appears- treated us badlyיָּרֵעוּyareu
do evil
To harm someone; evildoers.
Where else “yareu” appears- and afflicted usיְעַנּוּyeanu
afflict
To make suffer, oppress.
Where else “yeanu” appears- and laidיִּתְּנוּyitnu
put
To place something somewhere.
Where else “yitnu” appears- hardקָשָׁהkasha
hard
Which is very costly to bear, do or solve.
Where else “kasha” appears- bondageעֲבֹדָהavoda
bondage
Work imposed by another, or the hard burden of one who does it as a slave.
Where else “avoda” appears
The context
5And you shall answer and say before YHWH your Elohim, “A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner, with few men, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation.
6 · This verse (above)
7And we cried out to YHWH, the Elohim of our fathers, and YHWH heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.