Exodus 2:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ הָרֹעִ֖ים וַיְגָרְשׁ֑וּם וַיָּ֤קָם מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיּ֣וֹשִׁעָ֔ן וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ אֶת־צֹאנָֽם׃

Transliteration

wa-yyābōʾû hārōʿîm wa-yəgārəšûm wa-yyāqām mōšeh wa-yyôšiʿān wa-yyašq ʾet-ṣōʾnām

Grammar Details

• *wa-yyābōʾû*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and came
• *hārōʿîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the shepherds
• *wa-yəgārəšûm*: waw consecutive + piel imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + 3rd feminine plural suffix - and drove them away
• *wa-yyāqām*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and arose/stood up
• *mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
• *wa-yyôšiʿān*: waw consecutive + hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine plural suffix - and helped/saved them
• *wa-yyašq*: waw consecutive + hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and watered
• *ʾet-ṣōʾnām*: direct object marker + feminine singular collective noun + 3rd feminine plural suffix - their flock

Word Meanings

• *yābōʾû*: came/arrived
• *rōʿîm*: shepherds/herdsmen
• *yəgārəšûm*: drove them away/expelled them
• *yāqām*: arose/stood up
• *yôšiʿān*: helped them/saved them/delivered them
• *yašq*: watered/gave drink to
• *ṣōʾn*: flock/sheep and goats

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Some shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their flock.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And the shepardes came and drove them awaye: But Moses stode vp and helped them and waterd their shepe.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Then came the shepherdes, and droue the awaye. But Moses gat him vp, and helped them, and gaue their shepe to drynke.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then the shepherds came and droue them away: but Moses rose vp and defended them, and watered their sheepe.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And the shepheardes came and droue them away: but Moyses stoode vp and helped them, and watred their sheepe.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

• World English Bible (2000)

  The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 29:10 : 10 And when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
• Gen 21:25 : 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
• Gen 26:15-22 : 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we. 17 And Isaac departed from there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. 18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 19 And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 20 And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they quarreled with him. 21 And they dug another well, and quarreled over that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. 22 And he moved from there, and dug another well; and for that they quarreled not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
• Exod 2:12 : 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.