And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
The 1611 reading
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall wee drinke?
KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense or past-participial form of murmur (to grumble; to complain; to utter complaints in a low, half articulated voice; to utter sullen discontent; with at, before the thing which is the cause of discontent).
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 15:24
Complete exact-word concordance
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall wee drinke?
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wildernesse.
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought vs vp out of Egypt, to kill vs and our children, and our cattell with thirst?
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron: and the whole Congregation said vnto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would God we had died in this wildernesse.
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Your carcases shall fall in this wildernesse, and all that were numbred of you, according to your whole number from twentie yeeres old and vpward, which haue murmured against mee,
1611 marginal noteDeut. 1.35.
¶ But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
¶ But on the morrow, all the Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye haue killed the people of the LORD.
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
And ye murmured in your tents and said, Because the LORD hated vs, he hath brought vs forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy vs:
And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
And the children of Israel smote them not, because the Princes of the Congregation had sworne vnto them by the LORD God of Israel: And all the Congregation murmured against the Princes.
But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
But murmured in their tents: and hearkened not vnto the voyce of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteNum. 14.2.
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
They also that erred in spirit shall come to vnderstanding, and they that murmured, shall learne doctrine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. shall know understanding.
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