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Exodus 1

Ex. 1:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the midwives
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
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
untos Pharaoh
Par`oh (Hebrew #6547)
Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings
KJV usage: Pharaoh.
Pronounce: par-o'
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
, Because the Hebrew
`Ibriy (Hebrew #5680)
an Eberite (i.e. Hebrew) or descendant of Eber
KJV usage: Hebrew(-ess, woman).
Pronounce: ib-ree'
Origin: patronymic from 5677
women
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
are not as the Egyptian women
Mitsriy (Hebrew #4713)
a Mitsrite, or inhabitant of Mitsrajim
KJV usage: Egyptian, of Egypt.
Pronounce: mits-ree'
Origin: from 4714
; for they are lively
chayeh (Hebrew #2422)
vigorous
KJV usage: lively.
Pronounce: khaw-yeh'
Origin: from 2421
, and are delivered
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
ere
terem (Hebrew #2962)
properly, non-occurrence; used adverbially, not yet or before
KJV usage: before, ere, not yet.
Pronounce: teh'-rem
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to interrupt or suspend
the midwives
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
come in
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
unto them.
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Josh. 2:4• 4And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: (Josh. 2:4)
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2 Sam. 17:19• 19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. (2 Sam. 17:19)

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Josh. 2:4‑24• 4And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
 5And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
 6But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
 7And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
 8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
 9And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
 10For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
 12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
 13And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
 14And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
 15Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
 16And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
 17And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
 18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
 19And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
 20And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
 21And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
 22And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
 23So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:
 24And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. (Josh. 2:4‑24)
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1 Sam. 21:2• 2And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. (1 Sam. 21:2)
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2 Sam. 17:19‑20• 19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
 20And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. (2 Sam. 17:19‑20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian; for they are strong, and they have borne before the midwife comes to them.