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Exodus 17

Ex. 17:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefore the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
did chide
riyb (Hebrew #7378)
a primitive root; properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
KJV usage: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, X ever, X lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, X thoroughly.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or ruwb {roob}
r with Moses
Mosheh (Hebrew #4872)
drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
KJV usage: Moses.
Pronounce: mo-sheh'
Origin: from 4871
, 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
, Give
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
us water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
that we may drink
shathah (Hebrew #8354)
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X assuredly, banquet, X certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (X -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of 8248.)
Pronounce: shaw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
. And Moses
Mosheh (Hebrew #4872)
drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
KJV usage: Moses.
Pronounce: mo-sheh'
Origin: from 4871
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
unto them, Why chide
riyb (Hebrew #7378)
a primitive root; properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
KJV usage: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, X ever, X lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, X thoroughly.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or ruwb {roob}
ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt
nacah (Hebrew #5254)
to test; by implication, to attempt
KJV usage: adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
t the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Num. 20:3‑4• 3{i}And the people contended with Moses,{/i} and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
 4{i}And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?{/i} (Num. 20:3‑4)
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Deut. 6:18• 18{i}And thou shalt do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest enter in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers,{/i} (Deut. 6:18)
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Psa. 78:18,41• 18And they tempted God in their hearts{HR}By asking food for their lust (souls).
 41And they turned again and tempted God ,{HR}And limited the Holy One of Israel. (Psa. 78:18,41)
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Psa. 95:8‑9• 8Harden not your heart like Meribah,{HR}Like the day of Massah in the wilderness;
 9When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work. (Psa. 95:8‑9)
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Isa. 7:12• 12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah. (Isa. 7:12)
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Matt. 4:7• 7{i}Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.{/i} (Matt. 4:7)
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1 Cor. 10:9• 9Neither let us tempt the Lord, even as some of them tempted, and were perishing by the serpents. (1 Cor. 10:9)

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To Tempt; Temptation

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the people.
Ex. 5:21• 21{i}And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, that ye have made our odour to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his bondmen, putting a sword into their hand to kill us!{/i} (Ex. 5:21)
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Ex. 14:11‑12• 11{i}And they said to Moses, Is it because there were no graves in Egypt, thou hast taken us away to die in the wilderness? why hast thou done this to us, that thou hast led us out of Egypt?{/i}
 12{i}Is not this what we told thee in Egypt, when we said, Let us alone, and we will serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.{/i} (Ex. 14:11‑12)
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Ex. 15:24• 24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? (Ex. 15:24)
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Ex. 16:2‑3• 2{i}And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.{/i}
 3{i}And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger!{/i} (Ex. 16:2‑3)
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Num. 11:4‑6• 4{i}And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?{/i}
 5{i}We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;{/i}
 6{i}and now our soul is dried up: there is nothing at all but the manna before our eyes.{/i} (Num. 11:4‑6)
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Num. 14:2• 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron, and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God that we had died in this wilderness! (Num. 14:2)
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Num. 20:3‑5• 3{i}And the people contended with Moses,{/i} and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
 4{i}And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?{/i}
 5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink. (Num. 20:3‑5)
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Num. 21:5• 5{i}and the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt that we should die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and no water, and our soul loathes this light bread.{/i} (Num. 21:5)
Give us.
Gen. 30:1‑2• 1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
 2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? (Gen. 30:1‑2)
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1 Sam. 8:6• 6{i}And the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us{/i}. And Samuel prayed to Jehovah. (1 Sam. 8:6)
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Luke 15:12• 12and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them his living. (Luke 15:12)
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Ex. 17:7• 7{i}And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?{/i} (Ex. 17:7)
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Ex. 16:2• 2{i}And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.{/i} (Ex. 16:2)
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Num. 14:22• 22{i}for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,{/i} (Num. 14:22)
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Deut. 6:16• 16{i}Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.{/i} (Deut. 6:16)
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Psa. 78:18,41,56• 18And they tempted God in their hearts{HR}By asking food for their lust (souls).
 41And they turned again and tempted God ,{HR}And limited the Holy One of Israel.
 56But they tempted and resisted God Most High,{HR}And kept not his testimonies, (Psa. 78:18,41,56)
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Psa. 95:9• 9When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work. (Psa. 95:9)
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Psa. 106:14• 14And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert. (Psa. 106:14)
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Isa. 7:12• 12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah. (Isa. 7:12)
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Mal. 3:15• 15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (Mal. 3:15)
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Matt. 4:7• 7{i}Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.{/i} (Matt. 4:7)
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Matt. 16:1‑3• 1{i}And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to [him], asked him, tempting [him], to show them a sign out of heaven .{/i}
 2{i}But he answering said to them, When evening is come, ye say, Fine weather, for the sky is red;{/i}
 3{i}and in the morning, A storm today, for the sky is red [and] lowering; ye know [how] to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times.{/i} (Matt. 16:1‑3)
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Luke 4:12• 12And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God. (Luke 4:12)
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Acts 5:9• 9Then Peter said to her, How [is it] that ye agreed together to tempt the Spirit of [the] Lord? Behold, the feet of those that buried thy husband [are] at the door and shall carry thee out. (Acts 5:9)
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Acts 15:10• 10Now therefore why tempt ye God, that ye should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? (Acts 15:10)
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1 Cor. 10:9• 9Neither let us tempt the Lord, even as some of them tempted, and were perishing by the serpents. (1 Cor. 10:9)
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Heb. 3:9• 9when your fathers tempted [me], proved [me], and saw my works forty years. (Heb. 3:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye temptd Jehovah?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "prove." so. ver. 7, "proved."

W. Kelly Translation

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And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)