Exodus 1:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָ֥בָה נִֽתְחַכְּמָ֖ה ל֑וֹ פֶּן־יִרְבֶּ֗ה וְהָיָ֞ה כִּֽי־תִקְרֶ֤אנָה מִלְחָמָה֙ וְנוֹסַ֤ף גַּם־הוּא֙ עַל־שֹׂ֣נְאֵ֔ינוּ וְנִלְחַם־בָּ֖נוּ וְעָלָ֥ה מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

hābâ nit-ḥakkəmâ to him pen-yirbeh and hāyâ when tiqreʾnâ milḥāmâ and nôsap̄ also he upon śōnʾênû and nilḥam against us and ʿālâ from the ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*hābâ*: imperative, 2nd masculine singular - 'come, give'
*nit-ḥakkəmâ*: verb, Hithpael imperfect, 1st plural cohortative - 'let us deal wisely'
ל֑וֹ: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - 'to/with him/it'
*pen*-*yirbeh*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'lest he multiply'
וְהָיָ֞ה: conjunction *wə-* + verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'and it will be'
כִּֽי־תִקְרֶ֤אנָה: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine plural - 'when they happen'
*milḥāmâ*: noun, feminine singular - 'war'
וְנוֹסַ֤ף: conjunction *wə-* + verb, Niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'and he will be added'
גַּם־הוּא֙: adverb + 3rd masculine singular pronoun - 'also he'
עַל־שֹׂ֣נְאֵ֔ינוּ: preposition + participle, masculine plural, Qal + 1st person plural suffix - 'upon those hating us'
וְנִלְחַם־בָּ֖נוּ: conjunction *wə-* + verb, Niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular + preposition + 1st person plural suffix - 'and he will fight against us'
וְעָלָ֥ה: conjunction *wə-* + verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - 'and he will go up'
מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - 'from the land'

Word Meanings

*hābâ*: come, give, let us
*nit-ḥakkəmâ*: let us deal wisely, let us act shrewdly
*pen*: lest, otherwise
*yirbeh*: he will multiply, increase, become many
*hāyâ*: it will be, it will happen
*tiqreʾnâ*: they happen, befall, occur
*milḥāmâ*: war, battle, fighting
*nôsap̄*: he will be added, joined
*śōnʾênû*: those hating us, our enemies
*nilḥam*: he will fight, do battle
*ʿālâ*: he will go up, ascend, depart

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Referenced Verses

Acts 7:19 : 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
Ps 83:3-4 : 3 They have taken crafty{H8686)} counsel against thy people, and consulted{H8691)} against thy hidden ones{H8803)}. 4 They have said{H8804)}, Come{H8798)}, and let us cut them off{H8686)} from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance{H8735)}.
Ps 105:25 : 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
1 Cor 3:18-20 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Jas 3:15-18 : 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Num 22:6 : 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Ps 10:2 : 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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