Judges 11:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֖י בַּעֲלוֹתָ֣ם מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ עַד־יַם־ס֔וּף וַיָּבֹ֖א קָדֵֽשָׁה׃

Transliteration

Kî in ʿălôtām from miṣrayim wayyēlek yiśrāʾēl in midbar unto yam-sûp wayyābōʾ qādēšâ

Grammar Details

*Kî*: conjunction - for/because/when
*ʿălôtām*: infinitive construct with 3rd person plural suffix - in their going up
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
*wayyēlek*: waw consecutive with qal imperfect 3rd singular masculine - and he went
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*midbar*: noun masculine singular with preposition bet - in wilderness
*yam-sûp*: construct noun phrase - Sea of Reeds/Red Sea
*wayyābōʾ*: waw consecutive with qal imperfect 3rd singular masculine - and he came
*qādēšâ*: proper noun with directional he suffix - to Kadesh

Word Meanings

*Kî*: for/because/when/that
*ʿălôtām*: their going up/ascent/departure
*midbar*: wilderness/desert
*yam-sûp*: Red Sea/Sea of Reeds

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Num 14:25 : 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Deut 1:40 : 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Num 20:1 : 1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Num 13:26 : 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Gen 14:7 : 7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
Deut 1:46 : 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Josh 5:6 : 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Judg 11:17-19
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17Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
18Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
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Exod 13:17-18
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17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
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Deut 1:19
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19And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Deut 1:1-2
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1These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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Exod 15:22
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Deut 1:40
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Deut 2:1
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