King James Version
Exodus 19:17 in the King James Version says “And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.”
Exodus 19:17 · KJV
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“brought forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“to meet”
H7125an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
“with 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
“out of the camp”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
“and they stood”
H3320to place (any thing so as to stay); reflexively, to station, offer, continue
“at the nether”
H8482lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
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