Study it in the app“So they set over them chiefs of forced labor to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Rameses.”
So they setוַיָּשִׂימוּover themעָלָיוchiefsשָׂרֵיof forced laborמִסִּיםto afflict themלְמַעַן עַנֹּתוֹwith their burdens.בְּסִבְלֹתָםAnd they builtוַיִּבֶןfor Pharaohלְפַרְעֹהstoreמִסְכְּנוֹתcities,עָרֵיPithomאֶת פִּתֹםand Rameses.וְאֶת רַעַמְסֵס
appoint
To set someone as leader, or fix something.
Where else “yasimu” appearschief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sare” appearsforced labor
Forced labor imposed on a subject people.
Where else “misim” appearsafflict
To make suffer, oppress.
Where else “anot” appearsburdens
Burdens: the heavy labor imposed on a subject people.
Where else “sivlota” appearsbuild
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “yiven” appearsPharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “faro” appearsstorehouses
Storehouses, store cities for supplies.
Where else “misknot” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “are” appearsPithom
Pithom, a store city in the Nile delta, built with the labor of the Israelites.
Where else “pitom” appearsRameses
Rameses, an area of northeastern Egypt, the same region as Goshen; also a city built by the Israelites there.
Where else “raamses” appears10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will multiply, and if war breaks out, they too will join those who hate us and fight against us and go up from the land.”
11 · This verse (above)
12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, and the Egyptians came to dread the sons of Israel.
