King James Version
Exodus 10:17 in the King James Version says “Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me ...” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.”
Exodus 10:17 · KJV
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. called: Heb. hastened to call
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. cast: Heb. fastened
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Now therefore forgive”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“I pray thee my sin”
H2403an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
“only this once”
H6471a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
“and intreat”
H6279to burn incense in worship, i.e., intercede (reciprocally, listen to prayer)
“the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“from me this death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
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