Exodus 3:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But I will put out my hand and overcome Egypt with all the wonders which I will do among them: and after that he will let you go.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֤י אֶת־יָדִי֙ וְהִכֵּיתִ֣י אֶת־מִצְרַ֔יִם בְּכֹל֙ נִפְלְאֹתַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֽ͏ֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵ֖ן יְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-šālaḥtî ʾet-yādî and-hikkêtî ʾet-Miṣrayim with-all nipleʾōtay that ʾe'ĕśeh in-qirbō and-after-thus yešallaḥ ʾetḵem.

Grammar Details

• *šālaḥtî*: perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will send
• *yādî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my hand
• *hikkêtî*: perfect, 1st person singular, hiphil with waw consecutive - and I will strike
• *Miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *nipleʾōtay*: noun, feminine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my wonders
• *ʾe'ĕśeh*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will do
• *qirbō*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its midst
• *yešallaḥ*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, piel - he will send away
• *ʾetḵem*: direct object marker with 2nd masculine plural suffix - you

Word Meanings

• *šālaḥtî*: I will send/I will stretch out/I will extend
• *yādî*: my hand/my power/my strength
• *hikkêtî*: I will strike/I will smite/I will attack
• *nipleʾōtay*: my wonders/my marvels/my miracles
• *qirbō*: its midst/among it/inside it
• *yešallaḥ*: he will send away/he will let go/he will release

Referenced Verses

• Neh 9:10 : 10 And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.
• Exod 9:15 : 15 For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:
• Deut 6:22 : 22 And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:
• Acts 7:36 : 36 This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.
• Ps 105:27 : 27 He let his signs be seen among the people, and his wonders in the land of Ham.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments.
• Exod 11:8-9 : 8 And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath. 9 And the Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh will not give ear to you, so that my wonders may be increased in the land of Egypt.
• Exod 12:31-33 : 31 And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said. 32 And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing. 33 And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.
• Exod 12:39 : 39 And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready.
• Deut 4:34 : 34 Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?
• Exod 7:3-5 : 3 And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh will not give ear to you, and I will put my hand on Egypt, and take my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, after great punishments. 5 And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them.
• Gen 15:14 : 14 But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
• Exod 6:1 : 1 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you will see what I am about to do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will be forced to let them go, driving them out of his land because of my outstretched arm.
• Ps 105:38 : 38 Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.
• Ps 106:22 : 22 Works of wonder in the land of Ham, and things of fear by the Red Sea.
• Ps 135:8-9 : 8 He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast. 9 He sent signs and wonders among you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
• Isa 19:22 : 22 And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.
• Isa 26:11 : 11 Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.
• Jer 32:20-21 : 20 You have done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day, in Israel and among other men; and have made a name for yourself as at this day; 21 And have taken your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, causing great fear;
• Ezek 20:33 : 33 By my life, says the Lord, truly, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose, I will be King over you:
• Acts 7:1-9 : 1 Then the high priest said, Are these things true? 2 And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran, 3 And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide. 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now: 5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time. 6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years. 7 And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place. 8 And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel. 9 And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him, 10 And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house. 11 Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food. 12 But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time. 13 And the second time his brothers had a meeting with Joseph, and Pharaoh had knowledge of Joseph's family.
• Judg 6:8 : 8 The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house;
• Judg 8:16 : 16 Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.
• Exod 11:1 : 1 And the Lord said to Moses, I will send one more punishment on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go; and when he does let you go, he will not keep one of you back, but will send you out by force.