Numbers 11:12

“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’?”

Numbers 11:12 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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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.

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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.

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the nursing childיֹּנֵקyonek

suck

For a baby to take milk from his mother's breast.

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to the groundאֲדָמָהadama

soil

Farmland, or dust.

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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.

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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.’

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