What Does 1 Samuel 6:6 Mean?

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

“Wherefore then do ye harden”

to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“your hearts”

the heart (as the most interior organ)

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“Wherefore then do ye harden”

to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same

“as the Egyptians”

mitsrajim, i.e., upper and lower egypt

“and Pharaoh”

paroh, a general title of egyptian kings

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“their hearts”

the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“when he had wrought wonderfully”

to effect thoroughly; by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e., maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)

“among them did they not let the people go”

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)