Study it in the app“and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, with mortar and with bricks and with every kind of work in the field; all their work in which they made them work was ruthless.”
and they madeוַtheir livesאֶת חַיֵּיהֶםbitterיְמָרְרוּwith hardקָשָׁהbondage,בַּעֲבֹדָהwith mortarבְּחֹמֶרand with bricksוּבִלְבֵנִיםand with everyוּבְכָלkind of workעֲבֹדָהin the field;בַּשָּׂדֶהallאֵת כָּלtheir workעֲבֹדָתָםin whichאֲשֶׁרthey made them workעָבְדוּ בָהֶםwas ruthless.בְּפָרֶךְ
life
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chaye” appearsembitter
To make someone's life hard, or to weep bitterly.
Where else “yemarru” appearshard
Which is very costly to bear, do or solve.
Where else “kasha” appearsbondage
Work imposed by another, or the hard burden of one who does it as a slave.
Where else “avoda” appearsclay
Wet earth, the potter's dough, or mire.
Where else “chomer” appearsbrick
Brick of clay.
Where else “levenim” appearsfield
The open country: "the beasts of the field".
Where else “sade” appearsenslave
To make others serve, enslave.
Where else “avdu” appearsharshness
Harshness, cruelty with which someone is made to work.
Where else “farech” appears13The Egyptians made the sons of Israel work ruthlessly,
14 · This verse (above)
15The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the second Puah:
