Hebrew Interlinear
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
| # | Original | Strong's | English | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | וְלֹֽא | H3808 | not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles | |
| 2 | יָכְלָ֣ה | H3201 | And when she could | to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might) |
| 3 | עוֹד֮ | H5750 | not longer | properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more |
| 4 | הַצְּפִינוֹ֒ | H6845 | hide | to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk |
| 5 | וַתִּֽקַּֽח | H3947 | him she took | to take (in the widest variety of applications) |
| 6 | לוֹ֙ | H0 | ||
| 7 | תֵּ֣בַת | H8392 | for him an ark | a box |
| 8 | גֹּ֔מֶא | H1573 | of bulrushes | properly, an absorbent, i.e., the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus |
| 9 | וַתַּחְמְרָ֥ה | H2560 | and daubed | properly, to boil up; hence, to glow (with redness) |
| 10 | בַֽחֵמָ֖ר | H2564 | it with slime | bitumen (as rising to the surface) |
| 11 | וּבַזָּ֑פֶת | H2203 | and with pitch | asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun) |
| 12 | וַתָּ֥שֶׂם | H7760 | and put | to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) |
| 13 | בָּהּ֙ | H0 | ||
| 14 | אֶת | H853 | properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely) | |
| 15 | הַיֶּ֔לֶד | H3206 | the child | something born, i.e., a lad or offspring |
| 16 | וַתָּ֥שֶׂם | H7760 | and put | to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) |
| 17 | בַּסּ֖וּף | H5488 | it in the flags | a reed, especially the papyrus |
| 18 | עַל | H5921 | above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | |
| 19 | שְׂפַ֥ת | H8193 | brink | the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.) |
| 20 | הַיְאֹֽר׃ | H2975 | by the river's | a 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...