Exodus 13:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּסֵּ֨ב אֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ אֶת־הָעָ֛ם דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר יַם־ס֑וּף וַחֲמֻשִׁ֛ים עָל֥וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And wayyassēb ʾĕlōhîm ʾet-the hāʿām derekh the hammidbār yam-sûp, and chamushîm ʿālû bənê-Yisrāʾēl from ʾerets Mitsrāyim.

Grammar Details

*wayyassēb*: conjunction + imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular, hiphil - caused to turn/led around
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural (divine intensive) - God
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*hāʿām*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the people
*derekh*: noun, masculine singular construct - way/road/path of
*hammidbār*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the wilderness/desert
*yam*: noun, masculine singular construct - sea of
*sûp*: noun - reeds/rushes
*chamushîm*: adjective, masculine plural - armed/equipped/in battle array
*ʿālû*: perfect, 3rd common plural - went up/ascended
*bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
*Yisrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*ʾerets*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
*Mitsrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt

Word Meanings

*wayyassēb*: led around/turned/caused to go about
*derekh*: way/road/path/journey
*hammidbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*yam-sûp*: Reed Sea/Sea of Reeds (traditionally rendered Red Sea)
*chamushîm*: armed/equipped/in battle array/in orderly ranks/in fifties
*ʿālû*: went up/ascended/departed
*bənê*: sons/children/descendants

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Referenced Verses

Exod 14:2 : 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
Num 33:6-8 : 6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol. 8 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Josh 1:14 : 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
Exod 12:51 : 51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Ps 107:7 : 7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

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