King James Version
Exodus 2:4 in the King James Version says “And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.”
Exodus 2:4 · KJV
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
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“stood”
H3320to place (any thing so as to stay); reflexively, to station, offer, continue
“And his sister”
H269a sister (used very widely [like h0251], literally and figuratively)
“afar off”
H7350remote, literally or figuratively, of place or time; specifically, precious; often used adverbially (with preposition)
“to wit”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“what would be done”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
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