Judges 11:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֖י בַּעֲלוֹתָ֣ם מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ עַד־יַם־ס֔וּף וַיָּבֹ֖א קָדֵֽשָׁה׃

Transliteration

Kî in ʿălôtām from miṣrayim wayyēlek yiśrāʾēl in midbar unto yam-sûp wayyābōʾ qādēšâ

Grammar Details

*Kî*: conjunction - for/because/when
*ʿălôtām*: infinitive construct with 3rd person plural suffix - in their going up
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
*wayyēlek*: waw consecutive with qal imperfect 3rd singular masculine - and he went
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*midbar*: noun masculine singular with preposition bet - in wilderness
*yam-sûp*: construct noun phrase - Sea of Reeds/Red Sea
*wayyābōʾ*: waw consecutive with qal imperfect 3rd singular masculine - and he came
*qādēšâ*: proper noun with directional he suffix - to Kadesh

Word Meanings

*Kî*: for/because/when/that
*ʿălôtām*: their going up/ascent/departure
*midbar*: wilderness/desert
*yam-sûp*: Red Sea/Sea of Reeds

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Referenced Verses

Num 14:25 : 25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Deut 1:40 : 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Num 20:1 : 1 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Num 13:26 : 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Gen 14:7 : 7 And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.
Deut 1:46 : 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode [there].
Josh 5:6 : 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Judg 11:17-19
3 verses
85%
17then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
18Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
19And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.
Exod 13:17-18
2 verses
80%
17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
18but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
Deut 1:19
78%
19And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Deut 1:1-2
2 verses
78%
1These are the words which Moses spake unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.
2It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.
Exod 15:22
77%
22And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Num 33:10-11
2 verses
77%
10And they journeyed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
11And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Deut 1:40
76%
40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Num 20:16-17
2 verses
76%
16and when we cried unto Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.
17Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.
Deut 2:1
76%
1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Exod 16:1
76%
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.
Exod 19:1-2
2 verses
75%
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.
2And 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.
Num 20:21-22
2 verses
75%
21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
22And they journeyed from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor.
Ps 114:1
75%
1When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Num 33:36
75%
36And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).
Num 21:4
75%
4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Num 33:1
75%
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Deut 11:4-5
2 verses
75%
4and 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;
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Deut 2:8
74%
8So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Josh 24:6
74%
6And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.
Exod 13:20
74%
20And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
Judg 11:15
74%
15and he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
Exod 14:22
73%
22And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Num 20:14
73%
14And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
Num 33:15
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15And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Num 32:8
73%
8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Exod 17:1
73%
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.
Ps 106:9
73%
9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
Jer 2:6
73%
6Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?
2 Kgs 3:8
73%
8And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.
Num 33:8
72%
8And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
Num 22:1
72%
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Exod 14:29-30
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72%
29But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
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Heb 11:29
72%
29By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up.
Deut 1:24
72%
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Exod 17:8
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8Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.