The kingמֶלֶךְof Egyptמִצְרַיִםsaidוַיֹּאמֶרto them,אֲלֵהֶם“Why,לָמָּהMosesמֹשֶׁהand Aaron,וְאַהֲרֹןdo you takeתַּפְרִיעוּthe peopleאֶת הָעָםaway fromמִtheir work?מַּעֲשָׂיוGoלְכוּto your burdens!”לְסִבְלֹתֵיכֶם
Exodus 5:4
Study it in the app“The king of Egypt said to them, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people away from their work? Go to your burdens!””
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 5:4, word by word
- The kingמֶלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- of Egyptמִצְרַיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- 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- and Aaronאַהֲרֹןaharon
Aaron
Aaron, the older brother of Moses, his spokesman before Pharaoh and the first high priest of Israel.
Where else “aharon” appears- do you takeתַּפְרִיעוּtafriu
ignore
To disregard advice, or distract from work.
Where else “tafriu” appears- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- their workמַּעֲשָׂיmaasay
labor
What one does each day to earn a living: his work, his trade.
Where else “maasay” appears- Goלְכוּlechu
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechu” appears- to your burdensסִבְלֹתֵיsivlote
burdens
Burdens: the heavy labor imposed on a subject people.
Where else “sivlote” 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
3They said, “The Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim, or he will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
4 · This verse (above)
5And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you make them cease from their burdens!”