King James Version
Numbers 11:6 in the King James Version says “But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.”
Numbers 11:6 · KJV
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting : and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? fell: Heb. lusted a lust wept: Heb. returned and wept
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. colour thereof: Heb. eye of it as the eye of
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
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“But now our soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“there is nothing at all beside”
H1115properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n
“this manna”
H4478literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e., manna (so called from the question about it)
“before our eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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