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Exodus 2

Ex. 2:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now the ηpriest
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
of Midian
Midyan (Hebrew #4080)
Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants
KJV usage: Midian, Midianite.
Pronounce: mid-yawn'
Origin: the same as 4079
had seven
sheba` (Hebrew #7651)
from 7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
KJV usage: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare 7658.
Pronounce: sheh'-bah
Origin: or (masculine) shibrah {shib-aw'}
daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
: and they came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
andt drew
dalah (Hebrew #1802)
properly, to dangle, i.e. to let down a bucket (for drawing out water); figuratively, to deliver
KJV usage: draw (out), X enough, lift up.
Pronounce: daw-law'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1809)
water, and filled
male' (Hebrew #4390)
a primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-)flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-)full, + have wholly.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: or malae (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}
the troughs
rahat (Hebrew #7298)
a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines)
KJV usage: gallery, gutter, trough.
Pronounce: rah'-hat
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out
to water
shaqah (Hebrew #8248)
to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
KJV usage: cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See 7937, 8354.
Pronounce: shaw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
their father’s
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
flock
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
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or, prince.
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Gen. 24:11• 11And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, when the women came out to draw water. (Gen. 24:11)
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Gen. 29:10• 10And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban his mother's brother. (Gen. 29:10)
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1 Sam. 9:11• 11As they went up the ascent to the city, they met maidens going forth to draw water; and they said to them, Is the seer here? (1 Sam. 9:11)

More on:

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Daughter,
Father,
Flock,
Midian; Midianites,
Priest; Priesthood,
Seven

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the priest.
or, prince.
Ex. 3:1• 1And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God--to Horeb. (Ex. 3:1)
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Gen. 14:18• 18And Melchisedec king of Salem brought out bread and wine. And he was priest of the Most High *God. (Gen. 14:18)
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Gen. 41:45• 45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. (Gen. 41:45)
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Gen. 41•  (Gen. 41)
:*marg:
they came.
Gen. 24:11,14‑20• 11And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, when the women came out to draw water.
 14And let it come to pass, that the maiden to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink, and who will say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also, be she whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and hereby I shall know that thou hast dealt kindly with my master.
 15And it came to pass before he had ended speaking, that behold, Rebecca came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother; and she had her pitcher upon her shoulder.
 16And the maiden was very fair in countenance; a virgin, and no man had known her. And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
 17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, sip a little water out of thy pitcher.
 18And she said, Drink, my lord! And she hasted and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink.
 19And when she had given him enough to drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have drunk enough.
 20And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw water; and she drew for all his camels. (Gen. 24:11,14‑20)
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Gen. 29:6‑10• 6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well; and behold, there comes Rachel his daughter with the sheep.
 7And he said, Behold, it is yet high day; it is not time that the cattle should be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, feed them.
 8And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep.
 9While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
 10And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban his mother's brother. (Gen. 29:6‑10)
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1 Sam. 9:11• 11As they went up the ascent to the city, they met maidens going forth to draw water; and they said to them, Is the seer here? (1 Sam. 9:11)
• Jethro presents to us the Gentiles among whom Christ and His glory were driven when He was rejected by the Jews. (“Exodus 1-2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs, to water their father’s flock.