Exodus 4:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֥י בַדֶּ֖רֶךְ בַּמָּל֑וֹן וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁ֣הוּ יְהוָ֔ה וַיְבַקֵּ֖שׁ הֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And yĕhî in-the-derek in-the-mālôn and yipgĕšēhû YHWH and yĕbaqqēš hămîtô.

Grammar Details

*yĕhî*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with waw conversive - it happened
*derek*: noun, masculine singular - way/road
*mālôn*: noun, masculine singular - lodging place
*yipgĕšēhû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix with waw conversive - he met him
*YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
*yĕbaqqēš*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with waw conversive - he sought
*hămîtô*: hiphil infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to kill him

Word Meanings

*mālôn*: lodging place/inn/place of overnight stay
*yipgĕšēhû*: met him/encountered him
*yĕbaqqēš hămîtô*: sought to kill him/tried to put him to death

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 17:14 : 14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that Jehovah spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
1 Chr 21:16 : 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
Hos 13:8 : 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.
Num 22:22-23 : 22 And God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Jehovah placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. 23 And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.
Gen 42:27 : 27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
Exod 3:18 : 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us: and now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.

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