Exodus 19:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּסְע֣וּ מֵרְפִידִ֗ים וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ מִדְבַּ֣ר סִינַ֔י וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַיִּֽחַן־שָׁ֥ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נֶ֥גֶד הָהָֽר׃

Transliteration

wə-yissəʿû from rəpîdîm wə-yābōʾû midbār sînay wə-yaḥănû in the midbār wə-yiḥan-there yiśrāʾēl opposite the hār.

Grammar Details

*wə-yissəʿû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - and they journeyed/set out
*rəpîdîm*: proper noun - Rephidim
*wə-yābōʾû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - and they came
*midbār*: noun, masculine singular construct - wilderness of
*sînay*: proper noun - Sinai
*wə-yaḥănû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - and they camped/encamped
*wə-yiḥan*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd singular - and he/it camped
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*hār*: noun, masculine singular - mountain

Word Meanings

*wə-yiḥan*: and he camped/and it [Israel as a unified entity] camped
*hār*: mountain/hill/elevated area

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Referenced Verses

Exod 17:1 : 1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exod 3:1 : 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.
Exod 3:12 : 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Exod 17:8 : 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exod 18:5 : 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God:
Acts 7:30 : 30 And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel {G2962} appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts 7:38 : 38 This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:
Gal 4:24 : 24 Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are {G1242} two covenants; {G3303} one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Exod 19:1
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1In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
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15And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Exod 19:16-17
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16And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.
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Exod 16:1
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1And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
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Exod 17:1
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1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exod 13:20
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20And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
Num 9:17-20
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17And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped.
18At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped.
19And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not.
20And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed.
Exod 19:3
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3And Moses went up unto God, and Jehovah called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
Num 22:1
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Judg 11:16
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Num 33:5-8
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Deut 1:2
75%
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Num 33:48-49
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75%
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Num 10:12
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Deut 1:19
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Judg 11:18
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Num 1:19
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19As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Num 20:22
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Exod 14:2
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Num 9:1
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Exod 19:11
74%
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Deut 2:1
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Num 33:36-37
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Num 33:22
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Num 1:1
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Num 1:52
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Exod 34:2
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Num 21:10
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Num 9:22
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Exod 19:23
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Num 2:2
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2The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses: over against the tent of meeting shall they encamp round about.
Exod 14:19
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Num 2:34
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