Exodus 9:3
hand <03027> [the hand.]
plague <01698> [murrain.]
We may observe a particular scope and meaning in this calamity, if we consider it in regard to the Egyptians, which would not have existed in respect to any other people. They held in idolatrous reverence almost every animal, but some they held in particular veneration; as the ox, cow, and ram. Among these, {Apis} and {Mnevis} are well known; the former being a sacred bull, worshipped at Memphis, as the latter was at Heliopolis. A cow or heifer had the like honours at Momemphis; and the same practice seems to have been adopted in most of the Egyptian {nomes.} By the infliction of this judgment, the Egyptian deities sank before the God of the Hebrews. See Bryant, pp. 87-93.
Exodus 9:1
Exodus 5:6
masters <05065> [taskmasters.]
{Nogesim,} literally, exactors, oppressors. These taskmasters were Egyptians, (ch. 1:11,) but the officers were Hebrews. See ver. 14.
foremen <07860> [officers.]
{Shoterim,} from the Arabic {saytara,} to overlook, superintend, seems to denote, as {musaytar} in Arabic also does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure answerable for them to Government. Compare ch. 2:14.
Exodus 5:9
work harder <05656 03513 0582> [Let there more work be laid upon the men. Heb. Let the work be heavy upon the men. vain words.]
Exodus 5:11
<01697> [not ought.]
Job 19:21
pity ...... have pity on me <02603> [have pity.]
hand <03027> [the hand.]
Psalms 32:4
tried <03027> [hand.]
<03955> [moisture.]
Psalms 38:2
arrows <02671> [thine.]
hand <03027> [thy hand.]
Psalms 39:10-11
stop <05493> [Remove.]
death <03615> [I am consumed.]
beaten <08409> [blow. Heb. conflict.]
sins <08433> [When.]
strength <02530> [his beauty, etc. Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away.]
people <0120> [surely.]
