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Exodus 4

Éx. 4:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then Zipporah
Tsipporah (Hebrew #6855)
bird; Tsipporah, Moses' wife
KJV usage: Zipporah.
Pronounce: tsip-po-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6833
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
a sharp λstone
tsor (Hebrew #6864)
a stone (as if pressed hard or to a point); (by implication, of use) a knife
KJV usage: flint, sharp stone.
Pronounce: tsore
Origin: from 6696
, anda cut off
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
the foreskin
`orlah (Hebrew #6190)
the prepuce
KJV usage: foreskin, + uncircumcised.
Pronounce: or-law'
Origin: feminine of 6189
of her son
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
, and μcast
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
it at his feet
regel (Hebrew #7272)
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphem. the pudenda
KJV usage: X be able to endure, X according as, X after, X coming, X follow, ((broken-))foot((-ed, -stool)), X great toe, X haunt, X journey, leg, + piss, + possession, time.
Pronounce: reh'-gel
Origin: from 7270
, and said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Surely a bloody
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
husband
chathan (Hebrew #2860)
a relative by marriage (especially through the bride); figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal)
KJV usage: bridegroom, husband, son in law.
Pronounce: khaw-thawn'
Origin: from 2859
art thou to me.
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or, knife.
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Jos. 5:2‑3• 2En aquel tiempo Jehová dijo á Josué: Hazte cuchillos afilados, y vuelve á circuncidar la segunda vez á los hijos de Israel.
 3Y Josué se hizo cuchillos afilados, y circuncidó á los hijos de Israel en el monte de los prepucios. (Jos. 5:2‑3)
μ
made it touch.

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Husband,
Son,
Stones,
Zipporah

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Ministry on This Verse

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a sharp stone. or, knife.
Jos. 5:2‑3• 2En aquel tiempo Jehová dijo á Josué: Hazte cuchillos afilados, y vuelve á circuncidar la segunda vez á los hijos de Israel.
 3Y Josué se hizo cuchillos afilados, y circuncidó á los hijos de Israel en el monte de los prepucios. (Jos. 5:2‑3)
cast it.
Heb made it touch.
a bloody.
2 S. 16:7• 7Y decía Semei, maldiciéndole: Sal, sal, varón de sangres, y hombre de Belial; (2 S. 16:7)
• For us the question is of being dead to sin, the true circumcision; our Moses is a bloody husband to her who has to do with him. God cannot use the flesh in the fight against Satan. (“Exodus 4” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feete, and said, A bloody husbandf indeed art thou to me!

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "made it touch his (Moses') feet."
f
Lit. "bridegroom," as Ps. 19.5; "son-in-law," as 1 Sam. 18.18.