Exodus 13:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּסֵּ֨ב אֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ אֶת־הָעָ֛ם דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר יַם־ס֑וּף וַחֲמֻשִׁ֛ים עָל֥וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And wayyassēb ʾĕlōhîm ʾet-the hāʿām derekh the hammidbār yam-sûp, and chamushîm ʿālû bənê-Yisrāʾēl from ʾerets Mitsrāyim.

Grammar Details

*wayyassēb*: conjunction + imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular, hiphil - caused to turn/led around
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural (divine intensive) - God
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*hāʿām*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the people
*derekh*: noun, masculine singular construct - way/road/path of
*hammidbār*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the wilderness/desert
*yam*: noun, masculine singular construct - sea of
*sûp*: noun - reeds/rushes
*chamushîm*: adjective, masculine plural - armed/equipped/in battle array
*ʿālû*: perfect, 3rd common plural - went up/ascended
*bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
*Yisrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*ʾerets*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
*Mitsrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt

Word Meanings

*wayyassēb*: led around/turned/caused to go about
*derekh*: way/road/path/journey
*hammidbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*yam-sûp*: Reed Sea/Sea of Reeds (traditionally rendered Red Sea)
*chamushîm*: armed/equipped/in battle array/in orderly ranks/in fifties
*ʿālû*: went up/ascended/departed
*bənê*: sons/children/descendants

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Referenced Verses

Exod 14:2 : 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.
Num 33:6-8 : 6 And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they encamped before Migdol. 8 And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Josh 1:14 : 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
Exod 12:51 : 51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Jehovah did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
Ps 107:7 : 7 He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.

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