KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Exodus 5:10–11
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Exodus 5:10
10¶ And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
10¶ And the taske-masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not giue you straw.
Exodus 5:11
11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
11Goe ye, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your worke shall be diminished.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:10
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
taskmasters
Overseers who impose, assign, and exact labor or tasks.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:11
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
diminished
Lessened; made smaller; reduced in size; contracted; degraded.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 10
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Open the full verse study11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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Open the full verse study12If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14And 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?
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