Bible Verse Dictionary
Exodus 2:3 - Bulrushes
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And when she could | H3201 | יָכֹל |
[Verb] to be {able} literally ({can } could) or morally ({may } might) |
not | H3808 | לֹא |
[Adverb] a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles |
longer | H5750 | עוֹד |
[Substitution] properly iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without {preposition}) again: {repeatedly} {still } more |
hide | H6845 | צָפַן |
[Verb] to hide (by covering over); by implication to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to {protect} (unfavorably) to lurk |
him she took | H3947 | לָקַח |
[Verb] to take (in the widest variety of applications) |
for him an ark | H8392 | תֵּבָה |
[Noun Feminine] a box |
of bulrushes | H1573 | גֹּמֶא |
[Noun Masculine] properly an {absorbent} that {is} the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus |
and daubed | H2560 | חָמַר |
[Verb] properly to boil up; hence to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); as denominative (from H2564) to smear with pitch |
it with slime | H2564 | חֵמָר |
[Noun Masculine] bitumen (as rising to the surface) |
and with pitch | H2203 | זֶפֶת |
[Noun Feminine] asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun) |
and put | H7760 | שׂוּם |
[Verb] to put (used in a great variety of {applications} {literally} {figuratively} inferentially and elliptically) |
the child | H3206 | יֶלֶד |
[Noun Masculine] something {born} that {is} a lad or offspring |
therein and she laid | H7760 | שׂוּם |
[Verb] to put (used in a great variety of {applications} {literally} {figuratively} inferentially and elliptically) |
it in the flags | H5488 | סוּף |
[Noun Masculine] a {reed} especially the papyrus |
by | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the river's brink | H8193 | שָׂפָה |
[Noun Feminine] Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a {vessel} {water} {cloth} etc.) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.