Exodus 7:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jehovah said unto Moses, See, I have made thee as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה רְאֵ֛ה נְתַתִּ֥יךָ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לְפַרְעֹ֑ה וְאַהֲרֹ֥ן אָחִ֖יךָ יִהְיֶ֥ה נְבִיאֶֽךָ

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer YHWH unto-Mōšeh, rəʾēh nətattîkā ʾĕlōhîm to-Parʿōh and-ʾAhărōn ʾāḥîkā yihyeh nəḇîʾekā

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he said
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
• *rəʾēh*: qal imperative masculine singular - see/behold
• *nətattîkā*: qal perfect 1st singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - I have made you
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun - god/deity/divine being
• *Parʿōh*: proper noun - Pharaoh
• *ʾAhărōn*: proper noun - Aaron
• *ʾāḥîkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your brother
• *yihyeh*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he will be
• *nəḇîʾekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your prophet

Word Meanings

• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/judges/divine being/mighty one
• *nəḇîʾekā*: your prophet/spokesperson/one who speaks on behalf of another

Referenced Verses

• Exod 4:15-16 : 15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as God.
• Ps 82:6 : 6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.
• Eccl 1:10 : 10 Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
• Gen 19:21 : 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.
• John 10:35-36 : 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot {G3756} be broken), 36 say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am [the] Son of God?
• Exod 16:29 : 29 See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
• 1 Kgs 17:23 : 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
• 2 Kgs 6:32 : 32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
• Jer 1:10 : 10 see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.