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AndוַYHWHיְהוָהsaidיֹּאמֶרto Moses,אֶל מֹשֶׁה“I have seenרָאִיתִיthisהַזֶּהpeople,אֶת הָעָםand look,וְהִנֵּהit isהוּאa stubbornקְשֵׁה עֹרֶףpeople.עַם
Exodus 32:9
Study it in the app“And YHWH said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and look, it is a stubborn people.”
At the golden calf, God burns with anger and Moses pleads for the peopleHoliness
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 32:9, word by word
- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- to Mosesמֹשֶׁהmoshe
Moses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appears- “I have seenרָאִיתִיraiti
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appears- peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- a stubbornקְשֵׁהkeshe
stubborn
Unyielding: "stiff-necked people".
Where else “keshe” appears- a stubbornעֹרֶףoref
stubbornness
Unbending: "hard-necked".
Where else “oref” appears
Translation note
“Stubborn” is literally “hard of neck”: one who does not bend the neck.
The context
8They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf of cast metal and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”
9 · This verse (above)
10Now let me alone, so that my anger may burn against them and I may consume them; and I will make you into a great nation.”