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Exodus 22:15 — King James Version← Study notes

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.


Exodus 22:15Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Exodus 22:1513 words
וְכִיwəḵîAnd relative conjunction
יְפַתֶּהyəp̄atehOpen
אִישׁʾîšMan
בְּתוּלָהbətûlāhVirgin
אֲשֶׁרʾăšerWho
לֹאlōʾNot
אֹרָשָׂהʾōrāśāhEngage for matrimony
וְשָׁכַבwəšāḵavAnd lie down
עִמָּהּʿimāhWith
מָהֹרmāhōrBargain
יִמְהָרֶנָּהyiməhārenāhBargain
לּוֹlwōTo
לְאִשָּׁהləʾišāhTo woman
Words read right to left. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Word-by-word meanings

וְכִיwəḵîAnd relative conjunction
יְפַתֶּהyəp̄atehOpen
אִישׁʾîšMan
בְּתוּלָהbətûlāhVirgin
אֲשֶׁרʾăšerWho
לֹאlōʾNot
אֹרָשָׂהʾōrāśāhEngage for matrimony
וְשָׁכַבwəšāḵavAnd lie down
עִמָּהּʿimāhWith
מָהֹרmāhōrBargain
יִמְהָרֶנָּהyiməhārenāhBargain
לּוֹlwōTo
לְאִשָּׁהləʾišāhTo woman

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