Exodus 9:15

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י עַתָּה֙ שָׁלַ֣חְתִּי אֶת־יָדִ֔י וָאַ֥ךְ אוֹתְךָ֛ וְאֶֽת־עַמְּךָ֖ בַּדָּ֑בֶר וַתִּכָּחֵ֖ד מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ

Transliteration

For now šālaḥtî ʾet-my yādî and wāʾak you and wəʾet-your people with the baddāber and wattikkāḥēd from the hāʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

• *šālaḥtî*: perfect, 1st singular, Qal form - I sent
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *yādî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st singular suffix - my hand
• *wāʾak*: conjunction + imperfect, 1st singular, Hiphil form - and I struck
• *wəʾet*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *baddāber*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - with the pestilence
• *wattikkāḥēd*: conjunction + imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, Niphal form - and you were cut off
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth/land

Word Meanings

• *šālaḥtî*: sent/stretched out/extended
• *yādî*: hand/power
• *wāʾak*: struck/smote
• *baddāber*: pestilence/plague/disease
• *wattikkāḥēd*: were cut off/were destroyed/perished

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you shall be cut off from the earth.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For now I had put forth{H7971} my hand,{H3027} and smitten{H5221} thee and thy people{H5971} with pestilence,{H1698} and thou hadst been cut off{H3582} from the earth:{H776}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For now I will stretch out{H7971}{(H8804)} my hand{H3027}, that I may smite{H5221}{(H8686)} thee and thy people{H5971} with pestilence{H1698}; and thou shalt be cut off{H3582}{(H8735)} from the earth{H776}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For now I will stretch out my hande and will smyte the and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perisshe from the erth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For I will now stretch out my hande, & smyte the & thy people wt pestilence, so yt thou shalt be roted out from the earth.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For nowe I will stretch out mine hande, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smyte thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt peryshe from the earth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for now I have put forth My hand, and I smite thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou art hidden from the earth.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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:

• World English Bible (2000)

  For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:20 : 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them; after that, he will let you go.
• Exod 9:3 : 3 the hand of the Lord will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, and sheep.
• Exod 9:6 : 6 And the Lord did this the next day: all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.
• Exod 9:16 : 16 But I have raised you up for this purpose: that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
• Exod 11:4-6 : 4 Moses said, "This is what the LORD says: About midnight I will go out through the midst of Egypt. 5 Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the millstones, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been nor ever will be again.
• Exod 12:29-30 : 29 At midnight, the LORD struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. 30 Pharaoh got up during the night, along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was no house without someone dead.
• Exod 14:28 : 28 The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
• 1 Kgs 13:34 : 34 This response became a sin to the house of Jeroboam, leading to its downfall and destruction from the face of the earth.
• Prov 2:22 : 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.