Text -- Exodus 9:2 (NET)

9:2 For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 9:2

¹ tn The object “them” is implied in the context.

² tn עוֹד (’od), an adverb meaning “yet, still,” can be inflected with suffixes and used as a predicator of existence, with the nuance “to still be, yet be” (T. O. Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 171-72, §137). Then, it is joined here with the Hiphil participle מַחֲזִיק (makhaziq) to form the sentence “you are still holding them.”