Study it in the app“And why is YHWH bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?””
And whyוְלָמָהis YHWHיְהוָהbringingמֵבִיאusאֹתָנוּintoאֶלthisהַזֹּאתlandהָאָרֶץto fallלִנְפֹּלby the sword?בַּחֶרֶבOur wivesנָשֵׁינוּand our little onesוְטַפֵּנוּwill becomeיִהְיוּplunder.לָבַזWould it not beהֲלוֹאbetterטוֹבfor usלָנוּto returnשׁוּבto Egypt?”מִצְרָיְמָה
YHWH
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” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “mevi” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsfall
To fall to the ground, or for a city to fall.
Where else “nepol” appearssword
A sword; or war.
Where else “cherev” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “nashe” appearslittle ones
Little ones: the children of a family.
Where else “tape” appearsbecome
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yihyu” appearsplunder, booty
Plunder: what the victor carries off from the defeated.
Where else “vaz” appearsbetter
Worth more or more profitable than something it is compared with.
Where else “tov” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “shuv” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayma” 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).
2And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or in this wilderness, if only we had died!
3 · This verse (above)
4And they said to one another, “Let us appoint a head and return to Egypt.”
