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So the peopleוַ הָעָםwere scatteredיָּפֶץthroughoutבְּallכָלthe landאֶרֶץof Egyptמִצְרָיִםto gatherלְקֹשֵׁשׁstubbleקַשׁfor straw.לַתֶּבֶן
Exodus 5:12
Study it in the app“So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 5:12, word by word
- So the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- were scatteredיָּפֶץyafets
be scattered
To end up scattered in many places, like a people without a shepherd.
Where else “yafets” appears- the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of Egyptמִצְרָיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- to gatherקֹשֵׁשׁkoshesh
gather
Gather from the ground (straw, wood).
Where else “koshesh” appears- stubbleקַשׁkash
stubble
Stubble: the dry remains left in the field after the harvest.
Where else “kash” appears- for strawתֶּבֶןteven
straw
Straw: chopped stalks of grain, used as fodder for animals and in making bricks.
Where else “teven” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
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).
The context
11You go and get yourselves straw wherever you can find it, for not a thing will be reduced from your work.’”
12 · This verse (above)
13The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Complete your work, each day’s task on its day, just as when there was straw.”