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Exodus 4

Ex. 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.
λ
or, knife.
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Josh. 5:2‑3• 2At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
 3And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. (Josh. 5:2‑3)
μ
made it touch.

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Husband,
Son,
Stones,
Zipporah

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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a sharp stone. or, knife.
Josh. 5:2‑3• 2At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
 3And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. (Josh. 5:2‑3)
cast it.
Heb made it touch.
a bloody.
2 Sam. 16:7• 7And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: (2 Sam. 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."
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Lit. "bridegroom," as Ps. 19.5; "son-in-law," as 1 Sam. 18.18.