What Does Exodus 4:9 Mean?

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“And it shall come to pass if they will not believe”

properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“also these two”

two; also (as ordinal) twofold

“signs”

a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc

these or those

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“neither hearken”

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

“unto thy voice”

a voice or sound

“that thou shalt take”

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

“land and the water”

water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen

“of the river”

a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m

“and pour”

to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc

“it upon the dry”

dry ground

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“land and the water”

water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“that thou shalt take”

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“of the river”

a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“shall become blood”

blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe

“upon the dry”

dry ground