King James Version
Exodus 5:15 in the King James Version says “Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy se...” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?”
Exodus 5:15 · KJV
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. your daily: Heb. a matter of a day in his day
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore ?
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Then the officers”
H7860properly, a scribe, i.e., (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
“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
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“Wherefore dealest”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
properly, like this, i.e., by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now
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