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But ifוְאִםyouאַתָּהrefuseמָאֵןto let them go,לְשַׁלֵּחַlook,הִנֵּהIאָנֹכִיam going to plagueנֹגֵףallאֶת כָּלyour territoryגְּבוּלְךָwith frogs.בַּצְפַרְדְּעִים
Exodus 8:2
Study it in the app“But if you refuse to let them go, look, I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 8:2, word by word
- refuseמָאֵןmaen
refusing
Refusing, unwilling.
Where else “maen” appears- to let them goשַׁלֵּחַshaleach
let go
To set free, release.
Where else “shaleach” appears- am going to plagueנֹגֵףnogef
strike
To punish with a blow; YHWH does it with a plague or by letting a battle be lost.
Where else “nogef” appears- your territoryגְּבוּלְgevul
territory
The land within that border.
Where else “gevul” appears- with frogsצְפַרְדְּעִיםtsefardim
frog
Frog.
Where else “tsefardim” appears
The context
1YHWH said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says YHWH: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 · This verse (above)
3The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, into the room where you sleep, and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.