Exodus 6:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר מֹשֶׁ֔ה לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר הֵ֤ן בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֹֽא־שָׁמְע֣וּ אֵלַ֔י וְאֵיךְ֙ יִשְׁמָעֵ֣נִי פַרְעֹ֔ה וַאֲנִ֖י עֲרַ֥ל שְׂפָתָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

wə-yədabbēr Mōšeh before YHWH lēʾmōr hēn bənê-Yiśrāʾēl not-šāməʿû unto-me and-how yišmāʿēnî parʿōh and-I ʿăral śəp̄ātāyim

Grammar Details

*wə-yədabbēr*: waw consecutive + piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he spoke
*Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
before: preposition *lip̄nê* - before, in the presence of
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
*lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying
*hēn*: interjection - behold, see
*bənê-Yiśrāʾēl*: noun construct + proper noun - children of Israel
not-*šāməʿû*: negative particle + qal perfect, 3rd plural - have not listened
unto-me: preposition + 1st singular suffix *ʾēlay* - to me
and-how: conjunction + interrogative *wə-ʾêk* - and how
*yišmāʿēnî*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 1st singular suffix - will listen to me
*parʿōh*: proper noun - Pharaoh
and-I: conjunction + personal pronoun *wa-ʾănî* - and I
*ʿăral śəp̄ātāyim*: adjective construct + noun dual - uncircumcised of lips

Word Meanings

*yədabbēr*: spoke, said, addressed
*Mōšeh*: Moses
*YHWH*: Yahweh, LORD, the divine name
*lēʾmōr*: saying, to say, telling
*hēn*: behold, look, see
*bənê-Yiśrāʾēl*: children of Israel, Israelites
*šāməʿû*: they listened, they heard, they heeded
*yišmāʿēnî*: will listen to me, will hear me, will heed me
*parʿōh*: Pharaoh
*ʿăral śəp̄ātāyim*: uncircumcised of lips, having impeded speech, unskilled in speech

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Referenced Verses

Exod 4:10 : 10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Exod 6:30 : 30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Jer 1:6 : 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Exod 6:9 : 9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Exod 3:13 : 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
Exod 4:29-31 : 29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: 30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Exod 5:19-21 : 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task. 20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: 21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Lev 26:41 : 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Deut 30:6 : 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Isa 6:5 : 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Jer 9:26 : 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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