מֹשֶׁה
Moses
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- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
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Numbers
- Numbers 1:1 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 1:17 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
- Numbers 1:19 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 1:44 מֹשֶׁ֤ה n Proper These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.
- Numbers 1:48 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 1:54 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.
- Numbers 2:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 2:33 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 2:34 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
- Numbers 3:1 וּ/מֹשֶׁ֑ה מֹשֶׁ֖ה conj + n Proper n Proper Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
- Numbers 3:5 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 3:11 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 3:14 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- Numbers 3:16 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
- Numbers 3:38 מֹשֶׁ֣ה n Proper Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
- Numbers 3:39 מֹשֶׁ֧ה n Proper All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
- Numbers 3:40 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
- Numbers 3:42 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
- Numbers 3:44 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 3:49 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
- Numbers 3:51 מֹשֶׁ֜ה מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 4:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 4:17 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 4:21 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 4:34 מֹשֶׁ֧ה n Proper Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
- Numbers 4:37 מֹשֶׁה֙ מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 4:41 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh.
- Numbers 4:45 מֹשֶׁה֙ מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 4:46 מֹשֶׁ֧ה n Proper All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
- Numbers 4:49 מֹשֶׁ֔ה מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 5:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 5:4 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
- Numbers 5:5 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 5:11 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 6:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 6:22 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 7:1 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
- Numbers 7:4 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 7:6 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
- Numbers 7:11 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, "They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar."
- Numbers 7:89 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.
- Numbers 8:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 8:3 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 8:4 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
- Numbers 8:5 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 8:20 מֹשֶׁ֧ה מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper n Proper Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
- Numbers 8:22 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
- Numbers 8:23 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 9:1 מֹשֶׁ֣ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 9:4 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.
- Numbers 9:5 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
- Numbers 9:6 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
- Numbers 9:8 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you."
- Numbers 9:9 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 9:23 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept the charge of Yahweh, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 10:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 10:13 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper They first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 10:29 מֹשֶׁ֗ה מֹשֶׁה֒ n Proper n Proper Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.
- Numbers 10:35 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you.
- Numbers 11:2 מֹשֶׁ֑ה מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper n Proper The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
- Numbers 11:10 מֹשֶׁ֜ה מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper n Proper Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
- Numbers 11:11 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
- Numbers 11:16 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
- Numbers 11:21 מֹשֶׁה֒ n Proper Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
- Numbers 11:23 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
- Numbers 11:24 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
- Numbers 11:27 לְ/מֹשֶׁ֖ה prep + n Proper There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
- Numbers 11:28 מֹשֶׁ֛ה מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper n Proper Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.
- Numbers 11:29 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? would that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!
- Numbers 11:30 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
- Numbers 12:1 בְּ/מֹשֶׁ֔ה prep + n Proper Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
- Numbers 12:2 בְּ/מֹשֶׁה֙ prep + n Proper They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it.
- Numbers 12:3 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
- Numbers 12:4 מֹשֶׁ֤ה n Proper Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out.
- Numbers 12:7 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
- Numbers 12:8 בְ/מֹשֶֽׁה prep + n Proper with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
- Numbers 12:11 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't lay sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.
- Numbers 12:13 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.
- Numbers 12:14 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
- Numbers 13:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 13:3 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 13:16 מֹשֶׁ֖ה מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper n Proper These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- Numbers 13:17 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:
- Numbers 13:26 מֹשֶׁ֨ה n Proper They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.
- Numbers 13:30 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
- Numbers 14:2 מֹשֶׁ֣ה n Proper All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
- Numbers 14:5 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 14:11 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
- Numbers 14:13 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
- Numbers 14:26 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 14:36 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
- Numbers 14:39 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
- Numbers 14:41 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper?
- Numbers 14:44 וּ/מֹשֶׁ֔ה conj + n Proper But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't depart out of the camp.
- Numbers 15:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 15:17 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 15:22 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses,
- Numbers 15:23 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
- Numbers 15:33 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
- Numbers 15:35 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.
- Numbers 15:36 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 15:37 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 16:2 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
- Numbers 16:3 מֹשֶׁ֣ה n Proper and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?
- Numbers 16:4 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper When Moses heard it, he fell on his face:
- Numbers 16:8 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi:
- Numbers 16:12 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We won't come up:
- Numbers 16:15 לְ/מֹשֶׁה֙ prep + n Proper Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
- Numbers 16:16 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Moses said to Korah, You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:
- Numbers 16:18 וּ/מֹשֶׁ֥ה conj + n Proper They took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
- Numbers 16:20 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 16:23 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 16:25 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
- Numbers 16:28 מֹשֶׁה֒ n Proper Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.
- Numbers 16:36 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 16:40 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Numbers 16:41 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of Yahweh.
- Numbers 16:42 מֹשֶׁ֣ה n Proper It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.
- Numbers 16:43 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 16:44 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 16:46 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.
- Numbers 16:47 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
- Numbers 16:50 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.
- Numbers 17:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 17:6 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
- Numbers 17:7 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.
- Numbers 17:8 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
- Numbers 17:9 מֹשֶׁ֤ה n Proper Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
- Numbers 17:10 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.
- Numbers 17:11 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
- Numbers 17:12 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
- Numbers 18:25 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 19:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 20:2 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
- Numbers 20:3 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
- Numbers 20:6 מֹשֶׁ֨ה n Proper Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.
- Numbers 20:7 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 20:9 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
- Numbers 20:10 מֹשֶׁ֧ה n Proper Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?
- Numbers 20:11 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
- Numbers 20:12 מֹשֶׁ֣ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
- Numbers 20:14 מֹשֶׁ֧ה n Proper Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has happened to us:
- Numbers 20:23 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
- Numbers 20:27 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
- Numbers 20:28 מֹשֶׁ֨ה מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper n Proper Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
- Numbers 21:5 וּ/בְ/מֹשֶׁה֒ conj + prep + n Proper The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
- Numbers 21:7 מֹשֶׁ֜ה מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper n Proper The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people.
- Numbers 21:8 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
- Numbers 21:9 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
- Numbers 21:16 לְ/מֹשֶׁ֔ה prep + n Proper From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
- Numbers 21:32 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Numbers 21:34 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
- Numbers 25:4 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.
- Numbers 25:5 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.
- Numbers 25:6 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 25:10 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 25:16 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 26:3 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
- Numbers 26:4 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 26:9 מֹשֶׁ֤ה n Proper The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh,
- Numbers 26:52 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 26:59 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
- Numbers 26:63 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
- Numbers 26:64 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 27:2 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,
- Numbers 27:5 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
- Numbers 27:6 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 27:11 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 27:12 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
- Numbers 27:15 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
- Numbers 27:18 מֹשֶׁ֗ה n Proper Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
- Numbers 27:22 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
- Numbers 27:23 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.
- Numbers 28:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 29:40 מֹשֶׁ֖ה מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 30:1 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.
- Numbers 30:16 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
- Numbers 31:1 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 31:3 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.
- Numbers 31:6 מֹשֶׁ֛ה n Proper Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
- Numbers 31:7 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.
- Numbers 31:12 מֹשֶׁה֩ n Proper They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
- Numbers 31:13 מֹשֶׁ֨ה n Proper Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.
- Numbers 31:14 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses was angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
- Numbers 31:15 מֹשֶׁ֑ה n Proper Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
- Numbers 31:21 מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
- Numbers 31:25 מֹשֶׁ֥ה n Proper Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 31:31 מֹשֶׁ֔ה מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:41 מֹשֶׁ֗ה מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:42 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred
- Numbers 31:47 מֹשֶׁ֜ה מֹשֶֽׁה n Proper n Proper even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:48 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper The officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;
- Numbers 31:49 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
- Numbers 31:51 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all worked jewels.
- Numbers 31:54 מֹשֶׁ֜ה n Proper Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
- Numbers 32:2 מֹשֶׁה֙ n Proper the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
- Numbers 32:6 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
- Numbers 32:20 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
- Numbers 32:25 מֹשֶׁ֖ה n Proper The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
- Numbers 32:28 מֹשֶׁ֔ה n Proper So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.
About this entry
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At its core, משה (Môsheh) means “Moses.” First canonically at Exodus 2:10, it enters the text early. With 703 verses in 19 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Exodus (37% of all occurrences). Dig into 703-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4872 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 703
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 703 distinct verses.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #64
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 64 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 703 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 703 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 591 verses · 84%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 72 verses · 10%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 40 verses · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Moses 704×, Moses' 15×, Against moses 11×
- American Standard Version: Moses 700×, Against moses 12×, Came to pass 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Moses 690×, Him 11×, Moses’ 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Moses 760×, Against moses 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4872 across 766 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4872 across 762 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4872 across 749 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 17 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4872 across 768 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Moses = "drawn"
- the prophet and lawgiver, leader of the exodus
Word origin
n.pr.m. Moses, the great Hebrew leader, prophet and lawgiver (prob. = Egyptian mes, mesu, child, son, EbGS 539, cf. Di Ex 2:10, where see also older (abandoned) etymol.);—מ׳ Ex 2:10 + מֹשֶׁ֑ה v 15 +; name occurs 706 times in Hex (Ex. 290 times, Lv. 86 times, Nu. 233 times, Dt. 38 times, Jos. 59 times), Ju. 4 times + 18:30 where read מֹשֶׁה for מְנַשֶּׁה (cf. GFM); 1 S 12:6, 8,. Kings 10 times, Mi 6:4; Je 15:1; Is 63:11, 12; Mal 3:22 ψ 77:21 + 7 times; Chr. 3 times, Dn 9:11, 13;—Moses was son of Amram and Jochebed Ex 6:20 Nu 26:59 (both P), 1 Ch 5:29; 23:13; of tribe of Levi Ex 2:1 (E; cf. also foregoing); (younger) brother of Aaron 4:14 (J), 7:1, 2, 7 (P), etc., and brother of Miriam Nu 26:59 (P), 1 Ch 5:29 (cf. Ex 15:20 E); called prophet Dt 18:15, 18; 34:10; agent by whom י׳ gave law Ex 20:19, 20, 21, 22 (E) +; especially P (כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה י׳ אֶת־מ׳, etc.), Ex 39:1, 5, 7, 21, 26, 29, 31; 40:19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 32 Lv 7:38; 8:9, 13, 17, 27, 29 + often; lawgiver Dt 33:4; Jos 1:7, 13 (D) +; priest, מ׳ וְאַהֲרֹן בְּכֹהֲנָיו ψ 99:6. Phrases are—(עַבְדּוֹ, עַבְדִּי, etc.) מ׳ עֶבֶד י׳ Ex 14:31 (J), Nu 12:7 (E), Dt 34:5 (JE), Jos 1:1 (D) + 15 times Jos. (D); 1 K 8:53, 56; 2 K 18:12; 21:8; Mal 3:22; 2 Ch 1:3; 24:6; Ne 1:8; 9:14 ψ 105:26; מ׳ עֶבֶד אלהים 1 Ch 6:34; 24:9 Ne 10:30 Dn 9:11; מ׳ אִישׁ הָאֱלֹהִים Ezr 3:2 ψ 90:1; תּוֹרַת מ׳ Jos 8:32 (D), 1 K 2:3; 2 K 23:25; Mal 3:22; 2 Ch 23:18; 30:16; Ezr 3:2; 7:6; Dn 9:11, 13; סֵפֶר מ׳ 2 Ch 25:4; 35:12; Ne 13:1; סֵפֶר תּוֹרַת מ׳ Jos 8:31 (D), 23:6 (D), 2 K 14:6; Ne 8:1.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from משה (mâshâh) (H4871) — to draw.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
משֶׁה
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Moses,
- 1. the law-giver, often מ׳ רַבֵּינוּ M. our teacher. Ber. 3ᵇ. Sot. 12ᵃ; a. v. fr.—Y. Taan. IV, beg. 67ᵇ, a. e. מ׳ דאנא וכ׳ by Moses, I will look (at the priests) and not be diverted. Y. Dem. IV, 24ᵃ top בדֵין הוא מימר מ׳ דאנא וכ׳ will he (R. Ḥaggai) in this case, too, say, by Moses, I know the reason? Said he, by M. &c.; a. fr.—Bets. 38ᵇ מ׳ שפיר קאמרית by Moses, art thou right? (Rashi).—Trnsf. great scholar (that thou art)!, (mostly ironically). Ḥull. 93ᵃ. Sabb. 101ᵇ מ׳ שפיר קאמרת great scholar, art thou really right?; Bets. l. c. (v. supra); a. fr.
- 2. M. Bar ‘Atsri, father of R. Huna. B. Bath. 174ᵇ מ׳ בר עצרי (Ms. M. עצורי); Arakh. 23ᵃ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 47 distinct written forms H4872 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֹשֶׁ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Daniel 9:13 | 124 |
| מֹשֶׁ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:4 | 102 |
| מֹשֶׁ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 31:10 | 83 |
| מֹשֶׁה֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:1 | 71 |
| מֹשֶֽׁה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 34:8 | 68 |
| מֹשֶׁ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 29:1 | 53 |
| מֹשֶׁ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 31:1 | 47 |
| מֹשֶׁ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Daniel 9:11 | 42 |
| מֹשֶׁ֜ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 31:7 | 38 |
| מֹשֶׁ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 29:2 | 35 |
| מֹשֶׁ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:10 | 18 |
| מֹשֶׁ֧ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 34:5 | 13 |
| מֹשֶׁ֨ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:20 | 11 |
| מֹשֶׁה֒ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 4:21 | 8 |
| מֹשֶׁה֮ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 5:1 | 4 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:26 | 3 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁה֙ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:7 | 3 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 8:8 | 3 |
| מֹשֶׁה֩ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 15:1 | 3 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:3 | 2 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 34:7 | 2 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 11:10 | 2 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 19:3 | 2 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 18:1 | 2 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 4:18 | 2 |
| לְ/מֹשֶֽׁה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 2:21 | 2 |
| מֹ֘שֶׁ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 99:6 | 2 |
| בְ/מֹשֶֽׁה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 12:8 | 1 |
| בְּ/מֹשֶׁ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 12:1 | 1 |
| בְּ/מֹשֶׁ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 4:14 | 1 |
| בְּ/מֹשֶׁה֙ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 12:2 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/מֹשֶׁ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 14:31 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/מֹשֶׁה֒ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:5 | 1 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 14:44 | 1 |
| וּ/מֹשֶׁה֩ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 33:7 | 1 |
| כְּ/מֹשֶׁ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 34:10 | 1 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 103:7 | 1 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 19:20 | 1 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Leviticus 8:29 | 1 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֨ה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 12:31 | 1 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁ֪ה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 90:1 | 1 |
| לְ/מֹשֶׁה֙ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 16:15 | 1 |
| לְ֝/מֹשֶׁ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 106:32 | 1 |
| לְ֭/מֹשֶׁה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 106:16 | 1 |
| מֹ֠שֶׁה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 14:6 | 1 |
| מֹשֶׁ֡ה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:33 | 1 |
| מֹשֶׁה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 9:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Moses). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Drawn (or Egypt. mesu, "son;" hence Rameses, royal son). On the invitation of Pharaoh (Gen. 45:17-25), Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt. This immigration took place probably about 350 years before the birth of Moses. Some centuries before Joseph, Egypt had been conquered by a pastoral Semitic race from Asia, the Hyksos, who brought into cruel subjection the native Egyptians, who were an African race. Jacob and his retinue were accustomed to a shepherd's life, and on their arrival in Egypt were received with favour by the king, who assigned them the "best of the land", the land of Goshen, to dwell in. The Hyksos or "shepherd" king who thus showed favour to Joseph and his family was in all probability the Pharaoh Apopi (or Apopis).
Thus favoured, the Israelites began to "multiply exceedingly" (Gen. 47:27), and extended to the west and south. At length the supremacy of the Hyksos came to an end. The descendants of Jacob were allowed to retain their possession of Goshen undisturbed, but after the death of Joseph their position was not so favourable. The Egyptians began to despise them, and the period of their "affliction" (Gen. 15:13) commenced. They were sorely oppressed. They continued, however, to increase in numbers, and "the land was filled with them" (Ex. 1:7). The native Egyptians regarded them with suspicion, so that they felt all the hardship of a struggle for existence.
In process of time "a king [probably Seti I.] arose who knew not Joseph" (Ex. 1:8). (See PHARAOH.) The circumstances of the country were such that this king thought it necessary to weaken his Israelite subjects by oppressing them, and by degrees reducing their number. They were accordingly made public slaves, and were employed in connection with his numerous buildings, especially in the erection of store-cities, temples, and palaces. The children of Israel were made to serve with rigour. Their lives were made bitter with hard bondage, and "all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour" (Ex. 1:13, 14). But this cruel oppression had not the result expected of reducing their number. On the contrary, "the more the Egyptians afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew" (Ex. 1:12).
The king next tried, through a compact secretly made with the guild of midwives, to bring about the destruction of all the Hebrew male children that might be born. But the king's wish was not rigorously enforced; the male children were spared by the midwives, so that "the people multiplied" more than ever. Thus baffled, the king issued a public proclamation calling on the people to put to death all the Hebrew male children by casting them into the river (Ex. 1:22). But neither by this edict was the king's purpose effected.
One of the Hebrew households into which this cruel edict of the king brought great alarm was that of Amram, of the family of the Kohathites (Ex. 6:16-20), who with his wife Jochebed and two children, Miriam, a girl of perhaps fifteen years of age, and Aaron, a boy of three years, resided in or near Memphis, the capital city of that time. In this quiet home a male child was born (B.C. 1571). His mother concealed him in the house for three months from the knowledge of the civic authorities. But when the task of concealment became difficult, Jochebed contrived to bring her child under the notice of the daughter of the king by constructing for him an ark of bulrushes, which she laid among the flags which grew on the edge of the river at the spot where the princess was wont to come down and bathe. Her plan was successful. The king's daughter "saw the child; and behold the child wept." The princess (see PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER ) sent Miriam, who was standing by, to fetch a nurse. She went and brought the mother of the child, to whom the princess said, "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages." Thus Jochebed's child, whom the princess called "Moses", i.e., "Saved from the water" (Ex. 2:10), was ultimately restored to her.
As soon as the natural time for weaning the child had come, he was transferred from the humble abode of his father to the royal palace, where he was brought up as the adopted son of the princess, his mother probably accompanying him and caring still for him. He grew up amid all the grandeur and excitement of the Egyptian court, maintaining, however, probably a constant fellowship with his mother, which was of the highest importance as to his religious belief and his interest in his "brethren." His education would doubtless be carefully attended to, and he would enjoy all the advantages of training both as to his body and his mind. He at length became "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts 7:22). Egypt had then two chief seats of learning, or universities, at one of which, probably that of Heliopolis, his education was completed. Moses, being now about twenty years of age, spent over twenty more before he came into prominence in Bible history. These twenty years were probably spent in military service. There is a tradition recorded by Josephus that he took a lead in the war which was then waged between Egypt and Ethiopia, in which he gained renown as a skilful general, and became "mighty in deeds" (Acts 7:22).
After the termination of the war in Ethiopia, Moses returned to the Egyptian court, where he might reasonably have expected to be loaded with honours and enriched with wealth. But "beneath the smooth current of his life hitherto, a life of alternate luxury at the court and comparative hardness in the camp and in the discharge of his military duties, there had lurked from childhood to youth, and from youth to manhood, a secret discontent, perhaps a secret ambition. Moses, amid all his Egyptian surroundings, had never forgotten, had never wished to forget, that he was a Hebrew." He now resolved to make himself acquainted with the condition of his countrymen, and "went out unto his brethren, and looked upon their burdens" (Ex. 2:11). This tour of inspection revealed to him the cruel oppression and bondage under which they everywhere groaned, and could not fail to press on him the serious consideration of his duty regarding them. The time had arrived for his making common cause with them, that he might thereby help to break their yoke of bondage. He made his choice accordingly (Heb. 11:25-27), assured that God would bless his resolution for the welfare of his people. He now left the palace of the king and took up his abode, probably in his father's house, as one of the Hebrew people who had for forty years been suffering cruel wrong at the hands of the Egyptians.
He could not remain indifferent to the state of things around him, and going out one day among the people, his indignation was roused against an Egyptian who was maltreating a Hebrew. He rashly lifted up his hand and slew the Egyptian, and hid his body in the sand. Next day he went out again and found two Hebrews striving together. He speedily found that the deed of the previous day was known. It reached the ears of Pharaoh (the "great Rameses," Rameses II.), who "sought to slay Moses" (Ex. 2:15). Moved by fear, Moses fled from Egypt, and betook himself to the land of Midian, the southern part of the peninsula of Sinai, probably by much the same route as that by which, forty years afterwards, he led the Israelites to Sinai. He was providentially led to find a new home with the family of Reuel, where he remained for forty years (Acts 7:30), under training unconsciously for his great life's work.
Suddenly the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the burning bush (Ex. 3), and commissioned him to go down to Egypt and "bring forth the children of Israel" out of bondage. He was at first unwilling to go, but at length he was obedient to the heavenly vision, and left the land of Midian (4:18-26). On the way he was met by Aaron (q.v.) and the elders of Israel (27-31). He and Aaron had a hard task before them; but the Lord was with them (ch. 7-12), and the ransomed host went forth in triumph. (See EXODUS.) After an eventful journey to and fro in the wilderness, we see them at length encamped in the plains of Moab, ready to cross over the Jordan into the Promised Land. There Moses addressed the assembled elders (Deut. 1:1-4; 5:1-26:19; 27:11-30:20), and gives the people his last counsels, and then rehearses the great song (Deut. 32), clothing in fitting words the deep emotions of his heart at such a time, and in review of such a marvellous history as that in which he had acted so conspicious a part. Then, after blessing the tribes
(33), he ascends to "the mountain of Nebo (q.v.), to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho" (34:1), and from thence he surveys the land. "Jehovah shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar" (Deut. 34:2-3), the magnificient inheritance of the tribes of whom he had been so long the leader; and there he died, being one hundred and twenty years old, according to the word of the Lord, and was buried by the Lord "in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor" (34:6). The people mourned for him during thirty days.
Thus died "Moses the man of God" (Deut. 33:1; Josh. 14:6). He was distinguished for his meekness and patience and firmness, and "he endured as seeing him who is invisible." "There arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel" (Deut. 34:10-12).
The name of Moses occurs frequently in the Psalms and Prophets as the chief of the prophets.
In the New Testament he is referred to as the representative of the law and as a type of Christ (John 1:17; 2 Cor. 3:13-18; Heb. 3:5, 6). Moses is the only character in the Old Testament to whom Christ likens himself (John 5:46; comp. Deut. 18:15, 18, 19; Acts 7:37). In Heb. 3:1-19 this likeness to Moses is set forth in various particulars.
In Jude 1:9 mention is made of a contention between Michael and the devil about the body of Moses. This dispute is supposed to have had reference to the concealment of the body of Moses so as to prevent idolatry.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(Heb. Mosheh, "drawn," i.e. from the water; in the Coptic it means "saved from the water"), the legislator of the Jewish people, and in a certain sense the founder of the Jewish religion. The immediate pedigree of Moses is as follows: Levi was the father of: Gershon-- Kohath-- Merari Kohath was the father of: Amram = Jochebed Amram = Jochebed was the father of: Hur = Miriam-- Aaron = Elisheba-- Moses = Zipporah Aaron = Elisheba was the father of: Nadab-- Abihu-- Eleazar-- Ithamar Eleazar was the father of: Phineas Moses = Zipporah was the father of: Gershom-- Eliezer Gershom was the father of: Jonathan The history of Moses naturally divides itself into three periods of 40 years each. Moses was born at Goshen, In Egypt, B.C. 1571. The story of his birth is thoroughly Egyptian in its scene. His mother made extraordinary efforts for his preservation from the general destruction of the male children of Israel. For three months the child was concealed in the house. Then his mother placed him in a small boat or basket of papyrus, closed against the water by bitumen. This was placed among the aquatic vegetation by the side of one of the canals of the Nile. The sister lingered to watch her brother's fate. The Egyptian princess, who, tradition says, was a childless wife, came down to bathe in the sacred river. Her attendant slaves followed her. She saw the basket in the flags, and despatched divers, who brought it. It was opened, and the cry of the child moved the princess to compassion. She determined to rear it as her own. The sister was at hand to recommend a Hebrew nurse, the child's own mother. here was the first part of Moses' training,--a training at home in the true religion, in faith in God, in the promises to his nation, in the life of a saint,--a training which he never forgot, even amid the splendors and gilded sin of Pharaoh's court. The child was adopted by the princess. From this time for many years Moses must be considered as an Egyptian. In the Pentateuch this period is a blank, but in the New Testament he is represented as "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," and as "mighty in words and deeds." (Acts 7:22) this was the second part of Moses' training. The second period of Moses' life began when he was forty years old. Seeing the sufferings of his people, Moses determined to go to them as their helper, and made his great life-choice, "choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt." (Hebrews 11:25,26) Seeing an Israelite suffering the bastinado from an Egyptian, and thinking that they were alone, he slew the Egyptian, and buried the corpse in the sand. But the people soon showed themselves unfitted as yet to obtain their freedom, nor was Moses yet fitted to be their leader. He was compelled to leave Egypt when the slaying of the Egyptian became known, and he fled to the land of Midian, in the southern and southeastern part of the Sinai peninsula. There was a famous well ("the well,") (Exodus 2:15) surrounded by tanks for the watering of the flocks of the Bedouin herdsmen. By this well the fugitive seated himself and watched the gathering of the sheep. There were the Arabian shepherds, and there were also seven maidens, whom the shepherds rudely drove away from the water. The chivalrous spirit which had already broken forth in behalf of his oppressed countrymen broke forth again in behalf of the distressed maidens. They returned unusually soon to their father, Jethro, and told him of their adventure. Moses, who up to this time had been "an Egyptian," (Exodus 2:19) now became for a time an Arabian. He married Zipporah, daughter of his host, to whom he also became the slave and shepherd. (Exodus 2:21; 3:1) Here for forty years Moses communed with God and with nature, escaping from the false ideas taught him in Egypt, and sifting out the truths that were there. This was the third process of his training for his work; and from this training he learned infinitely more than from Egypt. Stanely well says, after enumerating what the Israelites derived from Egypt, that the contrast was always greater than the likeness. This process was completed when God met him on Horeb, appearing in a burning bush, and, communicating with him, appointed him to be the leader and deliverer of his people. Now begins the third period of forty years in Moses' life. He meets Aaron, his next younger brother, whom God permitted to be the spokesman, and together they return to Goshen in Egypt. From this time the history of Moses is the history of Israel for the next forty years. Aaron spoke and acted for Moses, and was the permanent inheritor of the sacred staff of power. But Moses was the inspiring soul behind. he is incontestably the chief personage of the history, in a sense in which no one else is described before or since. He was led into a closer communion with the invisible world than was vouchsafed to any other in the Old Testament. There are two main characters in which he appears--as a leader and as a prophet. (1) As a leader, his life divides itself into the three epochs--the march to Sinai; the march from Sinai to Kadesh; and the conquest of the transjordanic kingdoms. On approaching Palestine the office of the leader becomes blended with that of the general or the conqueror. By Moses the spies were sent to explore the country. Against his advice took place the first disastrous battle at hormah. To his guidance is ascribed the circuitous route by which the nation approached Palestine from the east, and to his generalship the two successful campaigns in which Sihon and Og were defeated. The narrative is told so briefly that we are in danger of forgetting that at this last stage of his life Moses must have been as much a conqueror and victorious soldier as was Joshua. (2) His character as a prophet is, from the nature of the case, more distinctly brought out. He is the first as he is the greatest example of a prophet in the Old Testament. His brother and sister were both endowed with prophetic gifts. The seventy elders, and Eldad and Medad also, all "prophesied." (Numbers 11:25-27) But Moses rose high above all these. With him the divine revelations were made "mouth to mouth." (Numbers 12:8) Of the special modes of this more direct communication, four great examples are given, corresponding to four critical epochs in his historical career. (a) The appearance of the divine presence in the flaming acacia tree. (Exodus 3:2-6) (b) In the giving of the law from Mount Sinai, the outward form of the revelation was a thick darkness as of a thunder-cloud, out of which proceeded a voice. (Exodus 19:19; 20:21) on two occasions he is described as having penetrated within the darkness. (Exodus 24:18; 34:28) (c) It was nearly at the close of these communications in the mountains of Sinai that an especial revelation of God was made to him personally. (Exodus 33:21,22; 34:5,6,7) God passed before him. (d) The fourth mode of divine manifestation was that which is described as beginning at this juncture, and which was maintained with more or less continuity through the rest of his career. (Exodus 33:7) It was the communication with God in the tabernacle from out the pillar of cloud and fire. There is another form of Moses' prophetic gift, viz., the poetical form of composition which characterizes the Jewish prophecy generally. These poetical utterances are--
+ "The song which Moses and the children of Israel sung" (after the passage of the Red Sea). (Exodus 15:1-19) + A fragment of the war-song against Amalek. (Exodus 17:16) + A fragment of lyrical burst of indignation. (Exodus 32:18) + The fragments of war-songs, probably from either him or his immediate prophetic followers, in (Numbers 21:14,15,27-30) preserved in the "book of the wars of Jehovah," (Numbers 21:14) and the address to the well. ch. (Numbers 21:14) and the address to the well. ch. (Numbers 21:16,17,18) + The song of Moses, (32:1-43) setting forth the greatness and the failings of Israel. + The blessing of Moses on the tribes, (33:1-29) + The 90th Psalm, "A prayer of Moses, the man of God." The title, like all the titles of the psalms, is of doubtful authority, and the psalm has often been referred to a later author. Character .--The prophetic office of Moses can only be fully considered in connection with his whole character and appearance. (Hosea 12:13) He was in a sense peculiar to himself the founder and representative of his people; and in accordance with this complete identification of himself with his nation is the only strong personal trait which we are able to gather from his history. (Numbers 12:3) The word "meek" is hardly an adequate reading of the Hebrew term, which should be rather "much enduring." It represents what we should now designate by the word "disinterested." All that is told of him indicates a withdrawal of himself, a preference of the cause of his nation to his own interests, which makes him the most complete example of Jewish patriotism. (He was especially a man of prayer and of faith, of wisdom, courage and patience.) In exact conformity with his life is the account of his end. The book of Deuteronomy describes, and is, the long last farewell of the prophet to his people. This takes place on the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year of the wanderings, in the plains of Moab. (1:3,5) Moses is described as 120 years of age, but with his sight and his freshness of strength unabated. (34:7) Joshua is appointed his successor. The law is written out and ordered to be deposited in the ark. ch. 31. The song and the blessing of the tribes conclude the farewell. chs. 32,33. And then comes the mysterious close. He is told that he is to see the good land beyond the Jordan, but not to possess it himself. He ascends the mount of Pisgah and stands on Nebo, one of its summits, and surveys the four great masses of Palestine west of the Jordan, so far as it can be discerned from that height. The view has passes into a proverb for all nations. "So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah. And he buried him in a 'ravine' in the land of Moab, 'before' Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day... And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days." (34:5,6,8) This is all that is said in the sacred record. (This burial was thus hidden probably-- (1) To preserve his grave from idolatrous worship or superstitious reverence; and (2) Because it may be that God did not intend to leave his body to corruption, but to prepare it, as he did the body of Elijah, so that Moses could in his spiritual body meet Christ, together with Elijah, on the mount of transfiguration.) Moses is spoken of as a likeness of Christ; and as this is a point of view which has been almost lost in the Church, compared with the more familiar comparisons of Christ to Adam, David, Joshua, and yet has as firm a basis in fact as any of them, it may be well to draw it out in detail.
(1) Moses is, as it would seem, the only character of the Old Testament to whom Christ expressly likens himself: "Moses wrote of me." (John 5:46) It suggests three main points of likeness: (a) Christ was, like Moses, the great prophet of the people--the last, as Moses was the first. (b) Christ, like Moses, is a lawgiver: "Him shall ye hear." (c) Christ, like Moses, was a prophet out of the midst of the nation, "from their brethren." As Moses was the entire representative of his people, feeling for them more than for himself, absorbed in their interests, hopes and fears, so, with reverence be it said, was Christ. (2) In (Hebrews 3:1-19; 12:24-29; Acts 7:37) Christ is described, though more obscurely, as the Moses of the new dispensation--as the apostle or messenger or mediator of God to the people--as the controller and leader of the flock or household of God. (3) The details of their lives are sometimes, though not often, compared. (Acts 7:24-28; 35) In (Jude 1:9) is an allusion to an altercation between Michael and Satan over the body of Moses. It probably refers to a lost apocryphal book, mentioned by Origen, called the "Ascension" or "Assumption of Moses." Respecting the books of Moses, see Pentateuch, The.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
taken out; drawn forth
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 667 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 703 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 2:10
- Leviticus 1:1
- Numbers 1:1
- Deuteronomy 1:1
- Joshua 1:1
- Judges 1:16
- 1 Samuel 12:6
- 1 Kings 2:3
- 2 Kings 14:6
- 1 Chronicles 6:3
- 2 Chronicles 1:3
- Ezra 3:2
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