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Exodus 2:3 Interlinear

And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the child and put it in the flags brink by the river's

Word-by-Word Analysis

#OriginalStrong'sEnglishDefinition
1וְלֹֽאH3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
2יָכְלָ֣הH3201And when she couldto be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
3עוֹד֮H5750not longerproperly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
4הַצְּפִינוֹ֒H6845hideto hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk
5וַתִּֽקַּֽחH3947him she tookto take (in the widest variety of applications)
6לוֹ֙H0
7תֵּ֣בַתH8392for him an arka box
8גֹּ֔מֶאH1573of bulrushesproperly, an absorbent, i.e., the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
9וַתַּחְמְרָ֥הH2560and daubedproperly, to boil up; hence, to glow (with redness)
10בַֽחֵמָ֖רH2564it with slimebitumen (as rising to the surface)
11וּבַזָּ֑פֶתH2203and with pitchasphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
12וַתָּ֥שֶׂםH7760and putto put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
13בָּהּ֙H0
14אֶתH853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
15הַיֶּ֔לֶדH3206the childsomething born, i.e., a lad or offspring
16וַתָּ֥שֶׂםH7760and putto put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
17בַּסּ֖וּףH5488it in the flagsa reed, especially the papyrus
18עַלH5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
19שְׂפַ֥תH8193brinkthe lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
20הַיְאֹֽר׃H2975by the river'sa channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m

Verse Context

Exodus 2:2conceived And the woman and bare a son and when she saw ...
Exodus 2:3 (current) And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the child and put it in the flags brink by the river's
Exodus 2:4stood And his sister afar off to wit what would be done...

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