Exodus 3:20

World English Bible (2000)

I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that he will let you go.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֤י אֶת־יָדִי֙ וְהִכֵּיתִ֣י אֶת־מִצְרַ֔יִם בְּכֹל֙ נִפְלְאֹתַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֽ͏ֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵ֖ן יְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-šālaḥtî ʾet-yādî and-hikkêtî ʾet-Miṣrayim with-all nipleʾōtay that ʾe'ĕśeh in-qirbō and-after-thus yešallaḥ ʾetḵem.

Grammar Details

• *šālaḥtî*: perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will send
• *yādî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my hand
• *hikkêtî*: perfect, 1st person singular, hiphil with waw consecutive - and I will strike
• *Miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *nipleʾōtay*: noun, feminine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my wonders
• *ʾe'ĕśeh*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will do
• *qirbō*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its midst
• *yešallaḥ*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, piel - he will send away
• *ʾetḵem*: direct object marker with 2nd masculine plural suffix - you

Word Meanings

• *šālaḥtî*: I will send/I will stretch out/I will extend
• *yādî*: my hand/my power/my strength
• *hikkêtî*: I will strike/I will smite/I will attack
• *nipleʾōtay*: my wonders/my marvels/my miracles
• *qirbō*: its midst/among it/inside it
• *yešallaḥ*: he will send away/he will let go/he will release

Referenced Verses

• Neh 9:10 : 10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is this day.
• Exod 9:15 : 15 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;
• Deut 6:22 : 22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
• Acts 7:36 : 36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
• Ps 105:27 : 27 They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
• Exod 11:8-9 : 8 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who follow you;" and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. 9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
• Exod 12:31-33 : 31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said! 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!" 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."
• Exod 12:39 : 39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.
• Deut 4:34 : 34 Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
• Exod 7:3-5 : 3 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."
• Gen 15:14 : 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
• Exod 6:1 : 1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."
• Ps 105:38 : 38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.
• Ps 106:22 : 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
• Ps 135:8-9 : 8 Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal; 9 Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants;
• Isa 19:22 : 22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
• Isa 26:11 : 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
• Jer 32:20-21 : 20 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and made yourself a name, as in this day; 21 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
• Ezek 20:33 : 33 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you:
• Acts 7:1-9 : 1 The high priest said, "Are these things so?" 2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3 and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.' 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living. 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child. 6 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. 7 'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.' 8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. 9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him, 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. 13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.
• Judg 6:8 : 8 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
• Judg 8:16 : 16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
• Exod 11:1 : 1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.