Exodus 3:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore will I stretch out mine hande and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which I will doe in the middes thereof: and after that shall he let you goe.

📖 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 shewed tokens & wonders vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudely against them: therefore thou madest thee a Name, as appeareth this day.
• Exod 9:15 : 15 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.
• Deut 6:22 : 22 And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,
• Acts 7:36 : 36 Hee brought them out, doing wonders, and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the red sea, and in the wildernes fourtie yeeres.
• Ps 105:27 : 27 They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Wherefore say thou vnto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out fro the burdens of the Egyptians, & will deliuer you out of their bondage, and will redeeme you in a stretched out arme, and in great iudgements.
• Exod 11:8-9 : 8 And all these thy seruants shall come downe vnto me, and fal before me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that are at thy feete, and after this will I depart. So he went out from Pharaoh very angry. 9 And the Lord saide vnto Moses, Pharaoh shall not heare you, that my wonders may bee multiplied in the land of Egypt.
• Exod 12:31-33 : 31 And hee called to Moses and to Aaron by night, and saide, Rise vp, get you out from among my people, both yee, and the children of Israel, and goe serue the Lorde as ye haue sayde. 32 Take also your sheepe and your cattell as yee haue sayde, & depart, and blesse me also. 33 And the Egyptians did force the people, because they would send them out of the land in haste: for they said, We die all.
• Exod 12:39 : 39 And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt, & made vnleauened cakes: for it was not leauened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, neither coulde they tarie, nor yet prepare themselues vitailes.
• Deut 4:34 : 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from among nations, by tentations, by signes, and by wonders, and by warre, and by a mightie hand, and by a stretched out arme, & by great feare, according vnto all that the Lord your God did vnto you in Egypt before your eyes?
• Exod 7:3-5 : 3 But I will harden Pharaohs heart, and multiplie my miracles and my wonders in the lande of Egypt. 4 And Pharaoh shall not hearken vnto you, that I may lay mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out myne armies, euen my people, the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by great iudgements. 5 Then the Egyptians shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I stretch foorth mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
• Gen 15:14 : 14 Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
• Exod 6:1 : 1 Then the Lord sayd vnto Moses, Nowe shalt thou see, what I will doe vnto Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them goe, and euen be constrained to driue them out of his land.
• Ps 105:38 : 38 Egypt was glad at their departing: for the feare of them had fallen vpon them.
• Ps 106:22 : 22 Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham, and fearefull things by the red Sea.
• Ps 135:8-9 : 8 He smote the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast. 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middes of thee, O Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants.
• Isa 19:22 : 22 So ye Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heale it: for he shall returne vnto ye Lord, and he shall be intreated of them and shall heale them.
• Isa 26:11 : 11 O Lorde, they will not beholde thine hie hande: but they shall see it, and bee confounded with the zeale of the people, and the fire of thine enemies shall deuoure them.
• Jer 32:20-21 : 20 Which hast set signes and wonders in the land of Egypt vnto this day, and in Israel, and among all men, and hast made thee a Name, as appeareth this day, 21 And hast brought thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signes, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, with a stretched out arme, and with great terrour,
• Ezek 20:33 : 33 As I liue, saith the Lorde God, I will surely rule you with a mightie hand, and with a stretched out arme, and in my wrath powred out,
• Acts 7:1-9 : 1 Then sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so? 2 And he sayd, Ye men, brethren and Fathers, hearken. That God of glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran; after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell, 5 And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the bredth of a foote: yet he promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seede after him, when as yet hee had no childe. 6 But God spake thus, that his seede should be a soiourner in a strange land: and that they should keepe it in bondage, and entreate it euill foure hundreth yeeres. 7 But the nation to whome they shall be in bondage, will I iudge, sayth God: and after that, they shall come forth and serue me in this place. 8 Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob the twelue Patriarkes. 9 And the Patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: but God was with him, 10 And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao King of Egypt, who made him gouernour ouer Egypt, and ouer his whole house. 11 Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance. 12 But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first: 13 And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao.
• Judg 6:8 : 8 The Lord sent vnto the children of Israel a Prophet, who sayd vuto them, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, I haue brought you vp from Egypt, and haue brought you out of the house of bondage,
• Judg 8:16 : 16 Then he tooke the Elders of the citie, and thornes of the wildernes & breers, & did teare the men of Succoth with them.
• Exod 11:1 : 1 (Now the Lord had saide vnto Moses, yet will I bring one plague more vpo Pharaoh, and vpon Egypt: after that, he will let you go hence: when he letteth you goe, he shall at once chase you hence.