Study it in the app“now, therefore, hear the word of YHWH, remnant of Judah: Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: If you really set your faces to go to Egypt, and go to reside as aliens there,”
now,וְעַתָּהtherefore,לָכֵןhearשִׁמְעוּthe wordדְבַרof YHWH,יְהוָהremnantשְׁאֵרִיתof Judah:יְהוּדָהThusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaot,צְבָאוֹתthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof Israel:יִשְׂרָאֵלIfאִםyouאַתֶּםreally setשׂוֹם תְּשִׂמוּןyour facesפְּנֵיכֶםto goלָבֹאto Egypt,מִצְרַיִםand goוּבָאתֶםto reside as aliensלָגוּרthere,שָׁם
hear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “shimu” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsremnant
Remnant: those left alive after a disaster.
Where else “sheerit” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” appearsTsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearstake to heart
"Set the face": decide; "set in the heart": pay attention.
Where else “som” appearsface
The front of the head, of someone or of God.
Where else “pene” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “vo” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearssojourn
To live in a place that is not your own.
Where else “gur” appearsEgypt
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).
14saying, ‘No, but to the land of Egypt we will go, where we will not see war, and the sound of the horn we will not hear, and for bread we will not be hungry, and there we will stay’;
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16then it will be that the sword that you are afraid of will overtake you there, in the land of Egypt; and the famine that you are anxious about will cling after you there in Egypt, and there you will die.
