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Exodus 2

Ex. 2:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now the ηpriest
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
of Midian
Midyan (Hebrew #4080)
Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants
KJV usage: Midian, Midianite.
Pronounce: mid-yawn'
Origin: the same as 4079
had seven
sheba` (Hebrew #7651)
from 7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
KJV usage: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare 7658.
Pronounce: sheh'-bah
Origin: or (masculine) shibrah {shib-aw'}
daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
: and they came
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
andt drew
dalah (Hebrew #1802)
properly, to dangle, i.e. to let down a bucket (for drawing out water); figuratively, to deliver
KJV usage: draw (out), X enough, lift up.
Pronounce: daw-law'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1809)
water, and filled
male' (Hebrew #4390)
a primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-)flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-)full, + have wholly.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: or malae (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}
the troughs
rahat (Hebrew #7298)
a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines)
KJV usage: gallery, gutter, trough.
Pronounce: rah'-hat
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out
to water
shaqah (Hebrew #8248)
to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
KJV usage: cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See 7937, 8354.
Pronounce: shaw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
their father’s
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
flock
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
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or, prince.
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Gen. 24:11• 11And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. (Gen. 24:11)
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Gen. 29:10• 10And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. (Gen. 29:10)
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1 Sam. 9:11• 11And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here? (1 Sam. 9:11)

More on:

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Daughter,
Father,
Flock,
Midian; Midianites,
Priest; Priesthood,
Seven

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the priest.
or, prince.
Ex. 3:1• 1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. (Ex. 3:1)
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Gen. 14:18• 18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. (Gen. 14:18)
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Gen. 41:45• 45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. (Gen. 41:45)
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Gen. 41•  (Gen. 41)
:*marg:
they came.
Gen. 24:11,14‑20• 11And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
 14And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.
 15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
 16And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
 17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
 18And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
 19And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
 20And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels. (Gen. 24:11,14‑20)
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Gen. 29:6‑10• 6And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
 7And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
 8And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
 9And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.
 10And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. (Gen. 29:6‑10)
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1 Sam. 9:11• 11And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here? (1 Sam. 9:11)
• Jethro presents to us the Gentiles among whom Christ and His glory were driven when He was rejected by the Jews. (“Exodus 1-2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs, to water their father’s flock.