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Forכִּיby nowעַתָּהI could have stretched outשָׁלַחְתִּיmy handאֶת יָדִיand struckוָאַךְyouאוֹתְךָand your peopleוְאֶת עַמְּךָwith pestilence,בַּדָּבֶרand you would have been wiped outוַתִּכָּחֵדfromמִןthe earth.הָאָרֶץ
Exodus 9:15
Study it in the app“For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been wiped out from the earth.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 9:15, word by word
- I could have stretched outשָׁלַחְתִּיshalachti
stretch out
Literally "send the hand": move the arm toward something to take or strike it.
Where else “shalachti” appears- my handיָדִyadi
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yadi” appears- and struckאַךְach
punish
God punishes with a plague.
Where else “ach” appears- and your peopleעַמְּam
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appears- with pestilenceדָּבֶרdaver
plague, pestilence
Pestilence: a disease that kills many in a short time.
Where else “daver” appears- and you would have been wiped outתִּכָּחֵדtikached
wipe out
To erase, destroy.
Where else “tikached” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears
The context
14For this time I am sending all my plagues against your heart, and on your servants and on your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
15 · This verse (above)
16But for this purpose I have let you stand, in order to show you my power, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.