What Does Exodus 1:10 Mean?

“Come on”

to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come

“let us deal wisely”

to be wise (in mind, word or act)

properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest

“with them lest they multiply”

to increase (in whatever respect)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“and it come to pass that when there falleth out”

to encounter, whether accidentally or in a hostile manner

“any war”

a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)

“join”

to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“they”

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“also unto our enemies”

to hate (personally)

“and fight”

to feed on; figuratively, to consume

“against us and so get them up”

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“out of the land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)