Exodus 15:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נָשַׁ֥פְתָּ בְרוּחֲךָ֖ כִּסָּ֣מוֹ יָ֑ם צָֽלֲלוּ֙ כַּֽעוֹפֶ֔רֶת בְּמַ֖יִם אַדִּירִֽים׃

Transliteration

nāšap̄tā ḇərūḥăḵā kissāmô yām ṣāˀlălū kaˁôp̄eret bəmayim ʾaddîrîm

Grammar Details

*nāšap̄tā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you blew
*ḇərūḥăḵā*: preposition + noun, feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - with your wind
*kissāmô*: piel perfect 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - it covered them
*yām*: noun, masculine singular - sea
*ṣāˀlălū*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they sank
*kaˁôp̄eret*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - like lead
*bəmayim*: preposition + noun, masculine plural - in waters
*ʾaddîrîm*: adjective, masculine plural - mighty

Word Meanings

*nāšap̄tā*: you blew/you breathed
*rūḥăḵā*: your wind/your breath/your spirit
*ṣāˀlălū*: they sank/they plunged/they went down

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Referenced Verses

Exod 15:5 : 5 The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
Isa 11:15 : 15 And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod.
Exod 14:21 : 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exod 14:27-28 : 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them.
Gen 8:1 : 1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
Jer 10:13 : 13 when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
Amos 4:13 : 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth— Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
Matt 8:27 : 27 And the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?
Deut 11:4 : 4 and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Jehovah hath destroyed them unto this day;
Ps 74:13-14 : 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Ps 135:7 : 7 Who causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who maketh lightnings for the rain; Who bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries;
Ps 147:18 : 18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

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