Exodus 18:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, [and] all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and [how] the LORD delivered them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְסַפֵּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ לְחֹ֣תְנ֔וֹ אֵת֩ כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לְפַרְעֹ֣ה וּלְמִצְרַ֔יִם עַ֖ל אוֹדֹ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֵ֤ת כָּל־הַתְּלָאָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מְצָאָ֣תַם בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וַיַּצִּלֵ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-yəsappēr mōšeh to-ḥōtenô ʾēt all-which ʿāśāh YHWH to-parʿōh and-to-miṣrayim on ʾôdōt yiśrāʾēl ʾēt all-hattəlāʾāh which məṣāʾātam in-hadderekh wə-yaṣṣilēm YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wə*-*yəsappēr*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, piel form - and he recounted/told
• *mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
• *ḥōtenô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his father-in-law
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *ʿāśāh*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - had done
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *parʿōh*: proper noun - Pharaoh
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *ʾôdōt*: noun, feminine plural construct - account of/concerning
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *hattəlāʾāh*: article with noun, feminine singular - the hardship
• *məṣāʾātam*: perfect, 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - had found them
• *hadderekh*: article with noun, masculine singular - the way/road
• *wə*-*yaṣṣilēm*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix, hiphil form - and he delivered them

Word Meanings

• *yəsappēr*: recounted/told/declared/reported
• *ʾôdōt*: account of/concerning/because of
• *təlāʾāh*: hardship/trouble/travail

Referenced Verses

• Num 20:14 : 14 ¶ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
• Neh 9:9-9 : 9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; 10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as [it is] this day. 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. 12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: 15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
• Neh 9:32 : 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
• Ps 78:42-43 : 42 They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
• Ps 81:7 : 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
• Ps 106:10 : 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
• Ps 107:2 : 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
• Ps 145:4-9 : 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. 6 And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness. 8 The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. 9 The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all his works. 10 ¶ All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
• Ps 105:1-2 : 1 ¶ O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. 2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
• Ps 66:16 : 16 Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
• Ps 71:17-20 : 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come. 19 Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee! 20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
• Gen 44:34 : 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
• Exod 15:6 : 6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
• Exod 15:16 : 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
• Exod 15:22-24 : 22 ¶ So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
• Exod 16:3 : 3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
• Exod 18:1 : 1 ¶ When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, [and] that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;