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Exodus 2

Ex. 2:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And when she could
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
not longer
`owd (Hebrew #5750)
from 5749; properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
KJV usage: again, X all life long, at all, besides, but, else, further(-more), henceforth, (any) longer, (any) more(-over), X once, since, (be) still, when, (good, the) while (having being), (as, because, whether, while) yet (within).
Pronounce: ode
Origin: or rod {ode}
hide
tsaphan (Hebrew #6845)
to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk
KJV usage: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place).
Pronounce: tsaw-fan'
Origin: a primitive root
him, she took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
for him an ark
tebah (Hebrew #8392)
a box
KJV usage: ark.
Pronounce: tay-baw'
Origin: perhaps of foreign derivation
of bulrushes
gome' (Hebrew #1573)
properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
KJV usage: (bul-)rush.
Pronounce: go'-meh
Origin: from 1572
, and daubed
chamar (Hebrew #2560)
properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); as denominative (from 2564) to smear with pitch
KJV usage: daub, befoul, be red, trouble.
Pronounce: khaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
it with slime
chemar (Hebrew #2564)
bitumen (as rising to the surface)
KJV usage: slime(-pit).
Pronounce: khay-mawr'
Origin: from 2560
and with pitch
zepheth (Hebrew #2203)
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
KJV usage: pitch.
Pronounce: zeh'-feth
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to liquify)
, and put
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
the child
yeled (Hebrew #3206)
something born, i.e. a lad or offspring
KJV usage: boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).
Pronounce: yeh'-led
Origin: from 3205
therein; and she laid
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
it in the flags
cuwph (Hebrew #5488)
a reed, especially the papyrus
KJV usage: flag, Red (sea), weed. Compare 5489.
Pronounce: soof
Origin: probably of Egyptian origin
by the river’s
y`or (Hebrew #2975)
a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream.
Pronounce: yeh-ore'
Origin: of Egyptian origin
brink
saphah (Hebrew #8193)
probably from 5595 or 8192 through the idea of termination (compare 5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Pronounce: saw-faw'
Origin: or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}
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More on:

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Ark of Bulrushes,
Bulrush,
Flag,
Nile,
Pitch,
River,
Slime

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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could not.
Ex. 1:22• 22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, but every daughter ye shall save alive. (Ex. 1:22)
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Matt. 2:13,16• 13Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to [thee] the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.
 16Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi. (Matt. 2:13,16)
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Acts 7:19• 19He dealt craftily with our race and evil-entreated our fathers, that they should expose their babes to the end they might not be preserved alive. (Acts 7:19)
an ark.
Isa. 18:2• 2that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon [the] face of [the] waters, [saying,] Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning and onward, to a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! (Isa. 18:2)
bulrushes.{Gomé,} is the papyrus, so famous in all antiquity.
It grows on the banks of the Nile, and in marshy grounds; the stalk rises to the height of six or seven cubits above the water, is triangular, and terminates in a crown of small filaments, resembling hair.
This reed was of the greatest use to the Egyptians; the pith serving them for food, and the woody part to build vessels with; which vessels frequently appear on various monuments of Egyptian antiquity.
That boats were made of this reed is also attested by Pliny and others.with slime.
Gen. 6:14• 14Make thee an ark of gopher wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and pitch it within and without with pitch. (Gen. 6:14)
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Gen. 11:3• 3And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and asphalt had they for mortar. (Gen. 11:3)
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Gen. 14:10• 10And the vale of Siddim was full of pits of asphalt. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrha fled and fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain. (Gen. 14:10)
• With their eye upon God, they dared to be disobedient to the king’s wicked command, and they were fearless of the consequences. Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in a later age, they believed that the God whom they served was able to deliver them out of the king’s hand (Dan. 3:16-17). The rulers of this world are powerless in the presence of those who are linked with God by the exercise of faith. (“The Birth of Moses: Exodus 2” by E. Dennett)
• Faith is never wanting in resources. (“The Birth of Moses: Exodus 2” by E. Dennett)
• As with Isaac and Samuel, so likewise with Moses, death must be known, at least in figure, by the parents, both for themselves and for their child before he can become an instrument in service for God. It is not a little remarkable, in this connection, that the word here used for ark is not found elsewhere in the Scriptures, except for the ark in which Noah and his house were brought through the flood. There is another resemblance. The ark of Noah was pitched within and without with pitch. Jochebed daubs this ark with slime and pitch. (“The Birth of Moses: Exodus 2” by E. Dennett)
• She thereby confessed the need of redemption, her faith owned it, and thus her ark of bulrushes, containing its precious freight, floated in safety amid the flags upon this river of death. (“The Birth of Moses: Exodus 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an arka of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in the sedge on the bank of the river.

JND Translation Notes

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Same word as ark in Gen. chs. 6 to 9, but not as Ex. 25.10. see Gen. 50.26.

W. Kelly Translation

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And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of paper reeds, and cemented it with bitumen and pitch, and put the child in it, and laid [it] in the sedge, on the bank of the river.