Study it in the app“Is not this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.””
Is notהֲלֹאthisזֶהthe wordהַדָּבָרthatאֲשֶׁרwe spokeדִּבַּרְנוּto youאֵלֶיךָin Egypt,בְמִצְרַיִםsaying,לֵאמֹר‘Leave us aloneחֲדַל מִמֶּנּוּand let us serveוְנַעַבְדָהthe Egyptians’?אֶת מִצְרָיִםForכִּיit would have been betterטוֹבfor usלָנוּto serveעֲבֹדthe Egyptiansאֶת מִצְרַיִםthanמִto dieמֻּתֵנוּin the wilderness.”בַּמִּדְבָּר
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “dibarnu” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearscease, stop
Stop doing something, cease; leave off.
Where else “chadal” appearsserve
To serve a person.
Where else “naavda” appearsEgyptian
Egyptian.
Where else “mitsrayim” appearsbetter
Worth more or more profitable than something it is compared with.
Where else “tov” appearsdie
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “mute” appearswilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appearsEgypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
11They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us to die in the wilderness? What is this you have done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?
12 · This verse (above)
13Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and see the salvation of YHWH, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see them again.
