Exodus 9:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may strike you and your people with pestilence; and you shall be cut off from the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י עַתָּה֙ שָׁלַ֣חְתִּי אֶת־יָדִ֔י וָאַ֥ךְ אוֹתְךָ֛ וְאֶֽת־עַמְּךָ֖ בַּדָּ֑בֶר וַתִּכָּחֵ֖ד מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ

Transliteration

For now šālaḥtî ʾet-my yādî and wāʾak you and wəʾet-your people with the baddāber and wattikkāḥēd from the hāʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

• *šālaḥtî*: perfect, 1st singular, Qal form - I sent
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *yādî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st singular suffix - my hand
• *wāʾak*: conjunction + imperfect, 1st singular, Hiphil form - and I struck
• *wəʾet*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *baddāber*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - with the pestilence
• *wattikkāḥēd*: conjunction + imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, Niphal form - and you were cut off
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth/land

Word Meanings

• *šālaḥtî*: sent/stretched out/extended
• *yādî*: hand/power
• *wāʾak*: struck/smote
• *baddāber*: pestilence/plague/disease
• *wattikkāḥēd*: were cut off/were destroyed/perished

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For now I will stretch out my hande and will smyte the and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perisshe from the erth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For I will now stretch out my hande, & smyte the & thy people wt pestilence, so yt thou shalt be roted out from the earth.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For nowe I will stretch out mine hande, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smyte thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt peryshe from the earth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for now I have put forth My hand, and I smite thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou art hidden from the earth.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:

• World English Bible (2000)

  For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:20 : 20 And I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof, and after that he will let you go.
• Exod 9:3 : 3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon your cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the oxen, and the sheep: there shall be a very severe pestilence.
• Exod 9:6 : 6 And the LORD did that thing the next day, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel not one died.
• Exod 9:16 : 16 And indeed, for this purpose, I have raised you up, to show in you my power; that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
• Exod 11:4-6 : 4 And Moses said, Thus says the LORD, About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt: 5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor shall be anymore.
• Exod 12:29-30 : 29 And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
• Exod 14:28 : 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; not so much as one of them remained.
• 1 Kgs 13:34 : 34 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
• Prov 2:22 : 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors will be rooted out of it.