Exodus 19:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

After setting out from Rephidim, they came into the wilderness of Sinai and camped there. Israel camped in front of the mountain.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּסְע֣וּ מֵרְפִידִ֗ים וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ מִדְבַּ֣ר סִינַ֔י וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַיִּֽחַן־שָׁ֥ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נֶ֥גֶד הָהָֽר׃

Transliteration

wə-yissəʿû from rəpîdîm wə-yābōʾû midbār sînay wə-yaḥănû in the midbār wə-yiḥan-there yiśrāʾēl opposite the hār.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yissəʿû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - and they journeyed/set out
• *rəpîdîm*: proper noun - Rephidim
• *wə-yābōʾû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - and they came
• *midbār*: noun, masculine singular construct - wilderness of
• *sînay*: proper noun - Sinai
• *wə-yaḥănû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd plural - and they camped/encamped
• *wə-yiḥan*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd singular - and he/it camped
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *hār*: noun, masculine singular - mountain

Word Meanings

• *wə-yiḥan*: and he camped/and it [Israel as a unified entity] camped
• *hār*: mountain/hill/elevated area

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the desert of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mountain.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And 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.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For they were departed from Raphidim, and were come to the deserte of Sinay and had pitched their tentes in the wildernesse. And there Israel pitched before the mounte.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  (for they were departed from Raphidim, and wolde in to the wyldernes of Sinai) and there they pitched in the wyldernes ouer against the mounte.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For they departed from Rephidim, & came to the desart of Sinai, and camped in the wildernesse: euen there Israel camped before the mount.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For they were departed from Raphidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched their tentes in the wyldernesse, and there Israel campped before the mounte.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and they journey from Rephidim, and enter the wilderness of Sinai, and encamp in the wilderness; and Israel encampeth there before the mount.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And 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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.

• World English Bible (2000)

  When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 17:1 : 1 Then the entire assembly of the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sin, traveling from one place to another as directed by the LORD. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
• Exod 3:1 : 1 Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
• Exod 3:12 : 12 God reassured him, 'I will certainly be with you. And this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.'
• Exod 17:8 : 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
• Exod 18:5 : 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God, bringing Moses’ wife and his two sons with him.
• Acts 7:30 : 30 After forty years had passed, an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the wilderness near Mount Sinai.
• Acts 7:38 : 38 This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; he received living words to pass on to us.
• Gal 4:24 : 24 Now these things may be interpreted allegorically: These women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery—this is Hagar.