The Nileהַיְאֹרwill swarmוְשָׁרַץwith frogs,צְפַרְדְּעִיםand they will come upוְעָלוּand goוּבָאוּinto your house,בְּבֵיתֶךָinto the roomוּבַחֲדַרwhere you sleep,מִשְׁכָּבְךָand ontoוְעַלyour bed,מִטָּתֶךָinto the housesוּבְבֵיתof your servantsעֲבָדֶיךָand among your people,וּבְעַמֶּךָinto your ovensוּבְתַנּוּרֶיךָand into your kneading bowls.וּבְמִשְׁאֲרוֹתֶיךָ
Exodus 8:3
Study it in the app“The 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.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 8:3, word by word
- The Nileיְאֹרyeor
Nile
See it on the mapWhere else “yeor” appears- will swarmשָׁרַץsharats
swarm
Swarm: move in great numbers, multiply until a place is full, like fish or insects.
Where else “sharats” appears- with frogsצְפַרְדְּעִיםtsefardim
frog
Frog.
Where else “tsefardim” appears- and they will come upעָלוּalu
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “alu” appears- and goבָאוּvau
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “vau” appears- into your houseבֵיתֶvete
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “vete” appears- into the roomחֲדַרchadar
inner room
Inner room, private chamber.
Where else “chadar” appears- where you sleepמִשְׁכָּבְmishkav
bed
The place in the house for sleeping and resting.
Where else “mishkav” appears- your bedמִטָּתֶmitate
bed
Bed; a couch.
Where else “mitate” appears- of your servantsעֲבָדֶיavade
servant
Someone who works for another, or a king's official.
Where else “avade” appears- and among your peopleעַמֶּame
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “ame” appears- into your ovensתַנּוּרֶיtanure
firepot, oven
Small clay oven, like a brazier.
Where else “tanure” appears- and into your kneading bowlsמִשְׁאֲרוֹתֶיmisharote
kneading bowl
Kneading bowl: the vessel in which bread is kneaded.
Where else “misharote” appears
Places in this verse
Nile
Today: Nile River, Uganda to Egypt and the Mediterranean
Egypt's great river; it flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.
Pharaoh dreamed beside the Nile (Gen 41:1). God turned its waters to blood (Exod 7:20), and baby Moses was placed on its bank (Exod 2:3-5).
The context
2But if you refuse to let them go, look, I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.
3 · This verse (above)
4The frogs will come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.”’”