DidהֶIאָנֹכִיconceiveהָרִיתִיallאֵת כָּלthisהַזֶּהpeople?הָעָםDidאִםIאָנֹכִיgive birth to them,יְלִדְתִּיהוּthatכִּיyou should sayתֹאמַרto me,אֵלַי‘Carry themשָׂאֵהוּin your bosom,בְחֵיקֶךָasכַּאֲשֶׁרthe nurseהָאֹמֵןcarriesיִשָּׂאthe nursing child,אֶת הַיֹּנֵקto the groundעַל הָאֲדָמָהthatאֲשֶׁרyou sworeנִשְׁבַּעְתָּto their fathers’?לַאֲבֹתָיו
Numbers 11:12
Study it in the app“Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the nurse carries the nursing child, to the ground that you swore to their fathers’?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 11:12, word by word
- conceiveהָרִיתִיhariti
conceive
Become pregnant, conceive; figuratively, conceive a plan.
Where else “hariti” appears- peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- give birth to themיְלִדְתִּיyelidti
bear
To bring a child into the world, giving birth after pregnancy.
Where else “yelidti” appears- you should sayתֹאמַרtomar
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomar” appears- ‘Carry themשָׂאֵsae
carry
To put something on oneself and carry it, on the shoulders or in the arms.
Where else “sae” appears- in your bosomחֵיקֶcheke
bosom
The chest and arms, where one holds someone close.
Where else “cheke” appears- the nurseאֹמֵןomen
nurse
To care for, raise a child.
Where else “omen” appears- the nursing childיֹּנֵקyonek
suck
For a baby to take milk from his mother's breast.
Where else “yonek” appears- to the groundאֲדָמָהadama
soil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appears- you sworeנִשְׁבַּעְתָּnishbata
swear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishbata” appears- to their fathers’אֲבֹתָיavotay
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avotay” appears
The context
11And Moses said to YHWH, “Why have you done evil to your servant? And why have I not found favor in your eyes, that you put the burden of all this people on me?
12 · This verse (above)
13Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’