King James Version
Exodus 14:3 in the King James Version says “For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.”
Exodus 14:3 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“of the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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