What Does Exodus 16:12 Mean?

“I have heard”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

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

“the murmurings”

a grumbling

“of the children”

a 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”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“speak”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto them saying”

to say (used with great latitude)

“At even”

between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or

dusk

“ye shall eat”

to eat (literally or figuratively)

“flesh”

flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man

“and in the morning”

properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning

“ye shall be filled”

to sate, i.e., fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively)

“with bread”

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

“and ye shall know”

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o

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

i

“that I am the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“your God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of