Exodus 33:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I may find favor in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֡ה אִם־נָא֩ מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֜ן בְּעֵינֶ֗יךָ הוֹדִעֵ֤נִי נָא֙ אֶת־דְּרָכֶ֔ךָ וְאֵדָ֣עֲךָ֔ לְמַ֥עַן אֶמְצָא־חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ וּרְאֵ֕ה כִּ֥י עַמְּךָ֖ הַגּ֥וֹי הַזֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

And-now if-nāʾ māṣāʾtî ḥēn in-ʿênêkā, hôdîʿēnî nāʾ ʾet-dərākêkā, and-ʾēdāʿăkā for-purpose ʾemṣāʾ-ḥēn in-ʿênêkā; and-rəʾēh that ʿamməkā the-gôy the-zeh.

Grammar Details

*nāʾ*: particle - please
*māṣāʾtî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st singular - I have found
*ḥēn*: noun, masculine singular - favor
*ʿênêkā*: noun, feminine dual + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your eyes
*hôdîʿēnî*: verb, Hiphil imperative, masculine singular + 1st singular suffix - make known to me
*dərākêkā*: noun, feminine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your ways
*ʾēdāʿăkā*: verb, Qal cohortative, 1st singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - I may know you
*ʾemṣāʾ*: verb, Qal imperfect, 1st singular - I may find
*rəʾēh*: verb, Qal imperative, masculine singular - see
*ʿamməkā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your people
*gôy*: noun, masculine singular - nation
*zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this

Word Meanings

*nāʾ*: please/now/I pray
*māṣāʾtî ḥēn*: I have found favor/I have found grace/I have approval
*hôdîʿēnî*: make known to me/show me/reveal to me
*dərākêkā*: your ways/your paths/your methods
*ʾēdāʿăkā*: I may know you/that I may know you/so I will know you
*ʾemṣāʾ-ḥēn*: I may find favor/I may find grace
*rəʾēh*: see/look/consider
*ʿamməkā*: your people/your nation
*gôy*: nation/people/gentiles

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Referenced Verses

Ps 25:4 : 4 Show me thy ways, O Jehovah; Teach me thy paths.
Ps 86:11 : 11 Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: Unite my heart to fear thy name.
Ps 119:33 : 33 HE. Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of thy statutes; And I shall keep it unto the end.
Ps 27:11 : 11 Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; And lead me in a plain path, Because of mine enemies.
Deut 9:29 : 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm.
Deut 9:26 : 26 And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Exod 34:9 : 9 And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Isa 30:21 : 21 and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
Rom 11:28 : 28 As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
Col 1:10 : 10 {G4043} {G5209} to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for {G2250} ever. Amen.
Isa 63:17 : 17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Isa 63:19 : 19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.
Exod 32:7 : 7 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
Exod 33:17-18 : 17 And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken; for thou hast found favor in my sight, and I know thee by name. 18 And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory.

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