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Youאַתֶּםgoלְכוּand getקְחוּyourselvesלָכֶםstrawתֶּבֶןwhereverמֵאֲשֶׁרyou can find it,תִּמְצָאוּforכִּיnotאֵיןa thingדָּבָרwill be reducedנִגְרָעfrom your work.’”מֵעֲבֹדַתְכֶם
Exodus 5:11
Study it in the app“You go and get yourselves straw wherever you can find it, for not a thing will be reduced from your work.’””
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 5:11, word by word
- goלְכוּlechu
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechu” appears- and getקְחוּkechu
fetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “kechu” appears- strawתֶּבֶןteven
straw
Straw: chopped stalks of grain, used as fodder for animals and in making bricks.
Where else “teven” appears- you can find itתִּמְצָאוּtimtsau
find
To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.
Where else “timtsau” appears- a thingדָּבָרdavar
thing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appears- will be reducedנִגְרָעnigra
take away
To subtract something from an amount or a law.
Where else “nigra” appears- from your work.’עֲבֹדַתְavodat
labor
The task someone does with his hands, above all work in the field.
Where else “avodat” appears
The context
10So the taskmasters of the people and their supervisors went out and said to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.
11 · This verse (above)
12So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.