KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Exodus 5:13–20
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Exodus 5:13
13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
13And the taske-masters hasted them, saying; Fulfill your workes, your †dayly taskes, as when there was straw.
- Hebr. a matter of a day in his day.
Exodus 5:14
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?
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaohs task-masters had set ouer them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore haue ye not fulfilled your taske, in making bricke, both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Exodus 5:15
15¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
15¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cryed vnto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy seruants?
Exodus 5:16
16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
16There is no straw giuen vnto thy seruants, and they say to vs, Make bricke: and beholde, thy seruants are beaten; but the fault is in thine owne people.
Exodus 5:17
17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.
17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let vs goe and doe sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus 5:18
18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
18Goe therefore now and worke: for there shall no straw bee giuen you, yet shall ye deliuer the tale of brickes.
Exodus 5:19
19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in euill case, after it was said, Yee shall not minish ought from your brickes of your dayly taske.
Exodus 5:20
20¶ And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
20¶ And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came foorth from Pharaoh.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:13
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
To haste: to hurry, act quickly, or make speed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
To accomplish, complete, perform, or bring to pass.
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Acts, deeds, labours, or things produced; also acts or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Assigned amounts of labor or work required to be performed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:14
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
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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
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Called for; claimed; challenged as due; requested; required; interrogated.
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Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
The fixed daily amount of labor imposed and required by authority.
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A block of formed and burned clay used for building.
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The preceding day, or figuratively the former time immediately past.
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The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
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MEANING IN THIS VERSE
heretofore
Times before the present; formerly.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:15
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
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Why; for what reason.
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Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:16
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
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Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
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Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
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To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
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To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
A block of formed and burned clay used for building.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
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But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence; applied to things.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:17
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy.
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To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
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To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An offering.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:18
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
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To rescue, set free, hand over, give up, or bring forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A number or count; an account or report, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Blocks chiefly made of clay, formed, dried, and burned for building.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:19
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A condition, circumstance, or state of affairs.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To diminish, lessen, or make smaller.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Blocks chiefly made of clay, formed, dried, and burned for building.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
The fixed daily amount of labor imposed and required by authority.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:20
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study24¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
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Open the full verse study8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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Open the full verse study27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
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Open the full verse study8But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study9But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
10¶ The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
11And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
13And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
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Open the full verse study18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study1SO I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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Open the full verse study8¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
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Open the full verse study36For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
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