Exodus 7:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Then Pharao called for the wyse men, and enchaunters: and those sorcerers of Egypt dyd in like maner with their sorcerie.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקְרָא֙ גַּם־פַּרְעֹ֔ה לֽ͏ַחֲכָמִ֖ים וְלַֽמְכַשְּׁפִ֑ים וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֨וּ גַם־הֵ֜ם חַרְטֻמֵּ֥י מִצְרַ֛יִם בְּלַהֲטֵיהֶ֖ם כֵּֽן

Transliteration

And-wayyiqrāʾ also-Parʿōh to-the-ḥăḵāmîm and-to-the-məḵaššəp̄îm and-wayyaʿăśû also-they ḥarṭummê Miṣrayim with-lahaṭêhem so

Grammar Details

• *wayyiqrāʾ*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he called
• *Parʿōh*: proper noun - Pharaoh
• *ḥăḵāmîm*: masculine plural adjective - wise men
• *məḵaššəp̄îm*: piel participle masculine plural - sorcerers
• *wayyaʿăśû*: qal imperfect 3rd common plural with waw consecutive - and they did
• *ḥarṭummê*: masculine plural construct noun - magicians of
• *Miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *lahaṭêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their secret arts

Word Meanings

• *ḥăḵāmîm*: wise men/sages/scholars
• *məḵaššəp̄îm*: sorcerers/magicians/enchanters
• *ḥarṭummê*: magicians/sacred scribes/interpreters
• *lahaṭêhem*: their secret arts/enchantments/magic

Referenced Verses

• Exod 7:22 : 22 And the enchaunters of Egypt dyd lykewyse with their sorceries, and he heardened Pharaos heart, neyther did he hearken vnto them, as the Lorde had sayde.
• Exod 8:7 : 7 And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorcerie, and brought frogges vp vpon the lande of Egypt.
• Exod 8:18 : 18 And the enchaunters assayed likewise with their enchauntmetes to bring foorth lyce, but they coulde not: and the lyce were both vpon men & beastes.
• Gen 41:8 : 8 And when the mornyng came, his spirite was troubled, and he sent and called for all the southsayers of Egypt, and all the wyse men thereof: and Pharao tolde them his dreame, but there was none of them that coulde interprete it vnto Pharao.
• 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 For as Iannes and Iambres withstoode Moyses, so do these also resist the trueth: Men of corrupt myndes, reprobate concernyng the fayth:
• Dan 2:2 : 2 Then the king commaunded to cal the wise men, and soothsayers, & sorcerers, and the Chaldees, for to shew the king his dreame: So they came, & stoode before the king.
• Dan 5:7 : 7 Wherfore the king cryed mightyly, that they should bring the soothsayers, Chaldees, & wysardes: the king spake also to the wise men of Babylon, & said, Who so can reade this wryting, & shewe me the interpretation thereof, shalbe clothed with purple, and haue a cheyne of golde about his necke, and shalbe the third ruler in the kingdome.
• Dan 5:11 : 11 There is a man in thy kingdome that hath the spirite of the holy Gods within him: & in the dayes of thy father, light, and vnderstanding, & wysdome, like the wysedome of the gods, was founde in hym, whom the king Nabuchodonozor thy father, the king I say thy father made chiefe of the wyse men, soothsayers, Chaldeans, and wysardes.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall aryse false Christes, and false prophetes, and shall shewe great signes, and wonders: In so much, that yf it were possible, the very elect, shoulde be deceaued.
• Gal 3:1 : 1 O foolishe Galathians, who hath bewitched you, that ye shoulde not obey ye trueth? To whom Iesus Christe was described before the eyes, & among you crucified.
• Eph 4:14 : 14 That we hencefoorth be no more children, wauering and caryed about with euery wynde of doctrine, in the wylynesse of men, in craftynesse, to the laying wayte of deceyte.
• 2 Thess 2:9 : 9 Euen hym whose commyng is after the workyng of Satan, in all power & signes, and wonders, of lying,
• Rev 13:11-15 : 11 And I behelde another beast commyng vp out of the earth, and he had two hornes lyke a lambe, and he spake as dyd the dragon. 12 And he dyd all that ye first beast coulde do in his presence, & he caused the earth and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he dyd great wonders, so that he made fyre come downe from heauen on the earth in the syght of men. 14 And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth, by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast, saying to them that dwelt on the earth, that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde, and dyd lyue. 15 And he had power to geue a spirite vnto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast shoulde speake, and shoulde cause that as many as woulde not worship the image of the beast, shoulde be kylled.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with hym that false prophete that wrought miracles before hym, with which he deceaued them that receaued the beastes marke, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast quicke into a ponde of fire, burnyng with brymstone:
• Dan 2:27 : 27 Daniel aunswered in the presence of the king, and sayd: As for this secrete for the whiche the king maketh inquisition, there can neither the men of vnderstanding, nor soothsayers, nor the wyse men, nor readers of destinies declare it vnto the king:
• Dan 4:7-9 : 7 So came the wyse men, the soothsayers, the Chaldeans, and wisardes: to whom I tolde the dreame, but they coulde not shewe me the interpretation therof. 8 Till at the last Daniel came before me (whose name was Baltassar, according to the name of my God) which hath the spirite of the holy gods in hym, & before him I tolde the dreame, saying: 9 O Baltassar, thou prince of wyse men, forsomuch as I knowe that thou hast the spirite of the holy gods, & no secrete troubleth thee: tell me therefore the visions of my dreame that I haue seene, and the interpretation therof.
• Gen 41:38-39 : 38 Then saide Pharao vnto his seruauntes: May there be founde a man suche as this is, in whom the spirite of God is? 39 And Pharao saide vnto Ioseph: Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is no man of vnderstandyng or of wisedome lyke vnto thee.
• Deut 13:1-3 : 1 If there aryse among you a prophete or a dreamer of dreames, and geue thee a signe, or a wonder. 2 And that signe or wonder whiche he hath sayde come to passe, and then say: Let vs go after straunge gods (which thou hast not knowen) and let vs serue them: 3 Hearken not thou vnto the wordes of that prophete or dreamer of dreames: For the Lorde thy God proueth you, to knowe whether ye loue the Lorde your God with all your heart and with all your soule.
• Isa 19:11-12 : 11 But you foolishe princes of Zoan, ye wise counsaylers of Pharao, whose wit is turned to foolishnesse, howe say ye vnto Pharao, I am come of wise men and of auncient kinges? 12 Where are thy wise men? Let them tell thee yf they can, what the Lorde of hoastes hath deuised vpon Egypt.
• Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Nowe go to thy coniurers, and to the multitude of thy witches with whom thou hast weeryed thy selfe from thy youth, if thei may helpe thee or strength thee. 13 Thou hast hitherto had many counsayles of them: So let the heauen gasers, and the beholders of starres, and moone prophetes, come on now and deliuer thee, yea and let them shew when these new thinges shal come vpon thee.