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Exodus 2:16 Interlinear

“Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water flock their father's”

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Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וּלְכֹהֵ֥ן	H3548	Now the priest	literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
2	מִדְיָ֖ן	H4080	of Midian	midjan, a son of abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants
3	שֶׁ֣בַע	H7651	had seven	seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
4	בָּנ֑וֹת	H1323	daughters	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
5	וַתָּבֹ֣אנָה	H935	and they came	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
6	וַתִּדְלֶ֗נָה	H1802	and drew	properly, to dangle, i.e., to let down a bucket (for drawing out water); figuratively, to deliver
7	וַתְּמַלֶּ֙אנָה֙	H4390	water and filled	to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
8	אֶת	H853		properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
9	הָ֣רְהָטִ֔ים	H7298	the troughs	a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines)
10	לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת	H8248	to water	to quaff, i.e., (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
11	צֹ֥אן	H6629	flock	a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
12	אֲבִיהֶֽן׃	H1	their father's	father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

Exodus 2:16 (current)Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water flock their father's