Exodus 9:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

For if you refuse to let them go, and continue to hold them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֛י אִם־מָאֵ֥ן אַתָּ֖ה לְשַׁלֵּ֑חַ וְעוֹדְךָ֖ מַחֲזִ֥יק בָּֽם

Transliteration

For if māʾēn you ləšallēaḥ and wəʿōdəkā maḥăzîq in them

Grammar Details

• *māʾēn*: participle, masculine singular, Piel form - refusing
• *ləšallēaḥ*: preposition + infinitive construct, Piel form - to send away/release
• *wəʿōdəkā*: conjunction + adverb + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and still you
• *maḥăzîq*: participle, masculine singular, Hiphil form - holding/strengthening/seizing

Word Meanings

• *māʾēn*: refusing/declining
• *ləšallēaḥ*: to send away/to release/to let go
• *maḥăzîq*: holding fast/seizing/strengthening/retaining

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For if thou refuse{H3986} to let them go,{H7971} and wilt hold{H2388} them still,

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For if thou refuse{H3986} to let them go{H7971}{(H8763)}, and wilt hold{H2388}{(H8688)} them still,

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Yf thou wilt not let them goo but wilt holde them styll:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yf thou wilt not, but holde them longer,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  If thou refuse to let them go, and wylt holde them styll,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,

• World English Bible (2000)

  For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

Referenced Verses

• Exod 8:2 : 2 And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will strike all your borders with frogs:
• Exod 10:4 : 4 But if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory:
• Lev 26:14-16 : 14 But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
• Lev 26:23-24 : 23 And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary to you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
• Lev 26:27-28 : 27 And if you will not for all this listen to me, but walk contrary to me; 28 Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
• Ps 7:11-12 : 11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. 12 If he does not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
• Ps 68:21 : 21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses.
• Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
• Rom 2:8 : 8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
• Rev 2:21-22 : 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. 22 Indeed I will cast her into a bed of suffering, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.
• Rev 16:9 : 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent to give Him glory.
• Exod 4:23 : 23 And I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me, and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your son, even your firstborn.