Exodus 10:7

And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Pharaoh’s	פַרְעֹ֜ה far.'Oh	H6547	Paroh · noun, masculine singular absolute
servants	עַבְדֵ֨י 'av.Dei	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine plural construct
said	וַיֹּאמְרוּ֩ vai.yo.me.Ru	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
snare	לְמוֹקֵ֔שׁ le.mo.Kesh	H4170	a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figurative… · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
men	הָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔ים ha.'a.na.Shim	H582	a man in general (singly or collectively) · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
go	שַׁלַּח֙ sha.Lach	H7971	to send away · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
serve	וְיַֽעַבְד֖וּ ve.ya.'av.Du	H5647	to work (in any sense) · conjunction + verb, qal, 3rd person masculine plural
LORD	יְהוָ֣ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם 'e.lo.hei.Hem	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
knowest	תֵּדַ֔ע te.Da'	H3045	to know (properly · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
yet	הֲטֶ֣רֶם ha.Te.rem	H2962	properly · interrogative particle + cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
Egypt	מִצְרָֽיִם mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · proper noun, a place name
destroyed	אָבְדָ֖ה 'a.ve.Dah	H6	properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular

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Cross-references

1 Samuel 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul…
Exodus 23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
Joshua 23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps…
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from he…
Exodus 8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LO…
Psalms 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Isaiah 14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:1-11

Here, I. Moses is instructed. We may well suppose that he, for his part, was much astonished both at Pharaoh's obstinacy and at God's severity, and could not but be compassionately concerned for the desolations of Egypt, and at a loss to conceive what this contest would come to at last. Now here God tells him what he designed, not only Israel's release, but the magnifying of his own name: That thou mayest tell in thy writings, which shall continue to the world's end, what I have wrought in Egypt, Exo 10:1, Exo 10:2. The ten plagues of Egypt must be inflicted, that they may be recorded for the generations to come as undeniable proofs, 1. Of God's overruling power in the kingdom of nature, his…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh's servants said--Many of his courtiers must have suffered serious losses from the late visitations, and the prospect of such a calamity as that which was threatened and the magnitude of which former experience enabled them to realize, led them to make a strong remonstrance with the king. Finding himself not seconded by his counsellors in his continued resistance, he recalled Moses and Aaron, and having expressed his consent to their departure, inquired who were to go. The prompt and decisive reply, "all," neither man nor beast shall remain, raised a storm of indignant fury in the breast of the proud king. He would permit the grown-up men to go away; but no other terms would be listen…

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Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:7

How long shall this man be a snare unto us? - As there is no noun in the text, the pronoun זה zeh may either refer to the Israelites, to the plague by which they were then afflicted, or to Moses and Aaron, the instruments used by the Most High in their chastisement. The Vulgate translates, Usquequo patiemur hoc scandalum? "How long shall we suffer this scandal or reproach?" Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God - Much of the energy of several passages is lost in translating יהוה Yehovah by the term Lord. The Egyptians had their gods, and they supposed that the Hebrews had a god like unto their own; that this Jehovah required their services, and would continue to afflict Egyp…

The Church Fathers

And the briefly recorded fact that the heart of Pharaoh experienced a kind of softening when he said, "But you shall not proceed far; you shall go a three days' journey and leave your wives behind," and whatever else he spoke when yielding before the marvelous works makes it clear that these signs had some effect even on him, though they did not entirely accomplish their object. Yet not even this would have happened if the idea held by most people about the words, "I will harden Pharaoh's heart," rightly represented what was wrought by him, that is, by God.
— Origen of Alexandria, ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.1.11

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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.
Locust · Plague of — Plague of
Locust, The · One of the plagues of Egypt — One of the plagues of Egypt
Plague · Locusts — Locusts

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 10:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:7

Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 10:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 10:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 10:7

Adam Clarke on Exodus 10:7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Exodus 10:7

John Calvin on Exodus 10:7-11

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 10:7-11

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 10:7-11

Rashi on Exodus 10:7