Exodus 10:19

And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	יְהוָ֤ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
turned	וַיַּהֲפֹ֨ךְ vai.ya.ha.Fokh	H2015	to turn about or over · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
mighty	מְאֹ֔ד me.'Od	H3966	properly · cardinal number, masculine singular absolute
strong	חָזָ֣ק cha.Zak	H2389	strong (usu. in a bad sense · adjective, masculine singular absolute
west	יָם֙ yam	H3220	a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water · noun, common masculine singular absolute
wind	רֽוּחַ Ru.ach-	H7307	wind · noun, common feminine singular construct
away	וַיִּשָּׂא֙ vai.yi.Sa'	H5375	to lift · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
locusts	הָ֣אַרְבֶּ֔ה ha.'ar.Beh	H697	a locust (from its rapid increase) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
cast	וַיִּתְקָעֵ֖הוּ vai.yit.ka.'E.hu	H8628	to clatter · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Red	סּ֑וּף Suf	H5488	a reed · noun, masculine singular absolute
sea	יָ֣מָּה Ya.mah	H3220	a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water · noun, common masculine singular construct + directional suffix
remained	נִשְׁאַר֙ nish.'Ar	H7604	properly · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
one	אֶחָ֔ד 'e.Chad	H259	properly · cardinal number, feminine singular absolute
locust	אַרְבֶּ֣ה 'ar.Beh	H697	a locust (from its rapid increase) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
coasts	גְּב֥וּל ge.Vul	H1366	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct
Egypt	מִצְרָֽיִם mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · proper noun, a place name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Joel 2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea,…
Exodus 13:18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land…
Exodus 15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
Hebrews 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:12-20

Here is, I. The invasion of the land by the locusts - God's great army, Joe 2:11. God bids Moses stretch out his hand (Exo 10:12), to beckon them, as it wee (for they came at a call), and he stretched forth his rod, Exo 10:13. Compare Exo 9:22 23. Moses ascribes it to the stretching out, not of his own hand, but the rod of God, the instituted sign of God's presence with him. The locusts obey the summons, and fly upon the wings of the wind, the east wind, and caterpillars without number, as we are told, Psa 105:34, Psa 105:35. A formidable army of horse and foot might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who then is able to stand before the great God? II. The desolations…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:13

the Lord brought an east wind--The rod of Moses was again raised, and the locusts came. They are natives of the desert and are only brought by an east wind into Egypt, where they sometimes come in sun-obscuring clouds, destroying in a few days every green blade in the track they traverse. Man, with all his contrivances, can do nothing to protect himself from the overwhelming invasion. Egypt has often suffered from locusts. But the plague that followed the wave of the miraculous rod was altogether unexampled. Pharaoh, fearing irretrievable ruin to his country, sent in haste for Moses, and confessing his sin, implored the intercession of Moses, who entreated the Lord, and a "mighty strong west…

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Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:19

A mighty strong west wind - רוח ים ruach yam, literally the wind of the sea; the wind that blew from the Mediterranean Sea, which lay north-west of Egypt, which had the Red Sea on the east. Here again God works by natural means; he brought the locusts by the east wind, and took them away by the west or north-west wind, which carried them to the Red Sea where they were drowned. The Red Sea - ים סוף yam suph, the weedy sea; so called, as some suppose, from the great quantity of alga or sea-weed which grows in it and about its shores. But Mr. Bruce, who has sailed the whole extent of it, declares that he never saw in it a weed of any kind; and supposes it has its name suph from the vast quantit…

Dictionary and topics

Locust — There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust. In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law…
Plagues, The Ten — The occasion on which the plagues were sent is described in Exod 3-12.
Red Sea — The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa. It is connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an arm, by the Strait of…
Instability · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Locust · Plague of — Plague of
Locust, The · Carried every way by the wind — Carried every way by the wind
Miracles Wrought Through Servants Of God · Moses and Aaron: Locust removed — Moses and Aaron: Locust removed
Plague · Locusts — Locusts
Red Sea · The locusts which — The locusts which
Sea, The · Seas mentioned in scripture: Red Sea — Seas mentioned in scripture: Red Sea
Wind · .Took away the plague of locusts from the land of Egypt — .Took away the plague of locusts from the land of Egypt
Wind, The · Mentioned in scripture: West — Mentioned in scripture: West

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 10:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:12-20

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:13

Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:19

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 10:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:12-20

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:13

Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:19

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Exodus 10:19

John Calvin on Exodus 10:12–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 10:18-20

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 10:17

Rashi on Exodus 10:19