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Ifאִםhe comes inיָבֹאalone,בְּגַפּוֹhe shall go outיֵצֵאalone;בְּגַפּוֹifאִםheהוּאhas a wife,בַּעַל אִשָּׁהhis wifeאִשְׁתּוֹshall go outוְיָצְאָהwith him.עִמּוֹ
Exodus 21:3
Study it in the app“If he comes in alone, he shall go out alone; if he has a wife, his wife shall go out with him.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 21:3, word by word
- he comes inיָבֹאyavo
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “yavo” appears- aloneגַפּgap
alone
By oneself.
Where else “gap” appears- he shall go outיֵצֵאyetse
go out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetse” appears- has a wifeבַּעַלbaal
one having
Literally "lord of": one marked by something, like the "lord of dreams", a dreamer.
Where else “baal” appears- has a wifeאִשָּׁהisha
wife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “isha” appears
The context
2When you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free, without payment.
3 · This verse (above)
4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.