Exodus 14:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקַּ֗ח שֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת רֶ֙כֶב֙ בָּח֔וּר וְכֹ֖ל רֶ֣כֶב מִצְרָ֑יִם וְשָׁלִשִׁ֖ם עַל־כֻּלּֽוֹ

Transliteration

wa-yiqqaḥ šēš-mēʾôṯ reḵeḇ bāḥûr wə-ḵōl reḵeḇ Miṣrāyim wə-šālišim ʿal-kullô

Grammar Details

• *wa-yiqqaḥ*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he took
• *šēš*-*mēʾôṯ*: numeral - six hundred
• *reḵeḇ*: noun, masculine singular construct - chariots of
• *bāḥûr*: Qal passive participle, masculine singular - chosen
• *wə-ḵōl*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and all
• *Miṣrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *wə-šālišim*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural - and officers/captains
• *ʿal*: preposition - over
• *kullô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - all of it/them

Word Meanings

• *wa-yiqqaḥ*: and he took/and he selected
• *reḵeḇ bāḥûr*: chosen chariots/select chariots
• *šālišim*: officers/captains/third men (possibly chariot warriors)
• *ʿal-kullô*: over all of them/over every one

Referenced Verses

• Exod 15:4 : 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
• Exod 14:23 : 23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
• Judg 4:3 : 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
• Judg 4:15 : 15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
• Ps 68:17 : 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
• Isa 37:24 : 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
• Josh 17:16-18 : 16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel. 17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only: 18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.