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Noאֵיןstrawתֶּבֶןis givenנִתָּןto your servants,לַעֲבָדֶיךָyet bricks!וּלְבֵנִיםthey keep sayingאֹמְרִיםto us,לָנוּ‘Make them!’עֲשׂוּAnd look,וְהִנֵּהyour servantsעֲבָדֶיךָare beaten;מֻכִּיםbut the sinוְחָטָאתis your people’s.”עַמֶּךָ
Exodus 5:16
Study it in the app“No straw is given to your servants, yet bricks! they keep saying to us, ‘Make them!’ And look, your servants are beaten; but the sin is your people’s.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 5:16, word by word
- strawתֶּבֶןteven
straw
Straw: chopped stalks of grain, used as fodder for animals and in making bricks.
Where else “teven” appears- is givenנִתָּןnitan
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “nitan” appears- to your servantsעֲבָדֶיavade
your servant
"Your servant": a humble way to say "I".
Where else “avade” appears- yet bricksלְבֵנִיםlevenim
brick
Brick of clay.
Where else “levenim” appears- they keep sayingאֹמְרִיםomrim
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “omrim” appears- ‘Make them!’עֲשׂוּasu
make
To build or create something.
Where else “asu” appears- are beatenמֻכִּיםmukim
strike
To give a blow to someone or something, with the hand or a weapon.
Where else “mukim” appears- but the sinחָטָאתchatat
sin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “chatat” appears- is your people’sעַמֶּame
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “ame” appears
The context
15Then the supervisors of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way?
16 · This verse (above)
17He said, “You are lazy, lazy! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to YHWH.’