Numbers 11:13

“Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’”

Numbers 11:13 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Numbers 11:13, word by word

Whereאַיִןayin

where from?

Where from? From what place?

Where else “ayin” appears
meatבָּשָׂרbasar

meat

Meat to eat.

Where else “basar” appears
to giveתֵתtet

give

To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.

Where else “tet” appears
peopleעָםam

crowd

The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.

Where else “am” appears
they weepיִבְכּוּyivku

weep

Weep, cry; mourn for someone.

Where else “yivku” appears
sayingאמֹרmor

say

To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.

Where else “mor” appears
that we may eat.’נֹאכֵלָהnochela

eat

To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.

Where else “nochela” appears

The context

12Did 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’?

13 · This verse (above)

14I am not able by myself to carry all this people, for it is too heavy for me.

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