Exodus 2:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹא־יָכְלָ֣ה עוֹד֮ הַצְּפִינוֹ֒ וַתִּֽקַּֽח־לוֹ֙ תֵּ֣בַת גֹּ֔מֶא וַתַּחְמְרָ֥ה בַחֵמָ֖ר וּבַזָּ֑פֶת וַתָּ֤שֶׂם בָּהּ֙ אֶת־הַיֶּ֔לֶד וַתָּ֥שֶׂם בַּסּ֖וּף עַל־שְׂפַ֥ת הַיְאֹֽר׃

Transliteration

wə-lōʾ-yāḵəlâ ʿôd haṣṣəp̄înô wa-tiqqaḥ-lô tēbat gōmeʾ wa-taḥmərāh baḥēmār ûbazzāp̄et wa-tāśem bāh ʾet-hayyeled wa-tāśem bassûp̄ ʿal-śəp̄at hayəʾōr

Grammar Details

*wə-lōʾ-yāḵəlâ*: waw conjunction + negative particle + qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and not able/could
*ʿôd*: adverb - still/longer/anymore
*haṣṣəp̄înô*: hiphil infinitive construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - to hide him
*wa-tiqqaḥ-lô*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular + preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and took for him
*tēbat*: construct state, feminine singular - ark/chest of
*gōmeʾ*: masculine singular noun - papyrus/bulrushes
*wa-taḥmərāh*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and daubed/smeared it
*baḥēmār*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - with the bitumen
*ûbazzāp̄et*: conjunction + preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - and with the pitch
*wa-tāśem*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and placed
*bāh*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - in it
*ʾet-hayyeled*: direct object marker + definite article + masculine singular noun - the child
*bassûp̄*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - in the reeds
*ʿal-śəp̄at*: preposition + construct state feminine singular - on the bank/edge of
*hayəʾōr*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the river/Nile

Word Meanings

*yāḵəlâ*: was able/could/had strength to
*tēbat gōmeʾ*: basket of papyrus/ark of bulrushes
*ḥēmār*: bitumen/asphalt/tar
*zāp̄et*: pitch/tar
*sûp̄*: reeds/rushes
*yəʾōr*: river/Nile/watercourse

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 18:2 : 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Isa 19:6 : 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
Matt 2:13 : 13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
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.
Gen 6:14 : 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Gen 11:3 : 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Gen 14:10 : 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Exod 1:22 : 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

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4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
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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.
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