Exodus 2:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִגְדַּ֣ל הַיֶּ֗לֶד וַתְּבִאֵ֙הוּ֙ לְבַת־פַּרְעֹ֔ה וֽ͏ַיְהִי־לָ֖הּ לְבֵ֑ן וַתִּקְרָ֤א שְׁמוֹ֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה וַתֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֥י מִן־הַמַּ֖יִם מְשִׁיתִֽהוּ׃

Transliteration

wa-yigdal hayyeled wa-təbiʾēhû ləbat-parʿōh wa-yəhî-lāh ləbēn wa-tiqrāʾ šəmô mōšeh wa-tōʾmer kî min-hammayim məšîtihû

Grammar Details

*wa-yigdal*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and grew
*hayyeled*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the child
*wa-təbiʾēhû*: waw consecutive + hiphil imperfect, 3rd feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and brought him
*ləbat-parʿōh*: preposition + construct state + proper noun - to the daughter of Pharaoh
*wa-yəhî-lāh*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - and he became to her
*ləbēn*: preposition + masculine singular noun - for a son
*wa-tiqrāʾ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and called
*šəmô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
*mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
*wa-tōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and said
*kî*: conjunction - because/for
*min-hammayim*: preposition + definite article + masculine plural noun - from the water
*məšîtihû*: qal perfect, 1st common singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - I drew him out

Word Meanings

*yigdal*: grew/became big
*təbiʾēhû*: brought him/carried him
*yəhî*: became/was
*bēn*: son
*tiqrāʾ*: called/named
*šēm*: name
*mōšeh*: drawn out one [wordplay with Egyptian 'child/son']
*məšîtihû*: I drew him out/I pulled him out

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gal 4:5 : 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Heb 11:24 : 24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Gen 4:25 : 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Gen 16:11 : 11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Gen 48:5 : 5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
1 Sam 1:20 : 20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
Matt 1:21 : 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Acts 7:21-22 : 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Exod 2:2-9
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2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
7Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
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20In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
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