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Lexicon :: Strong's H4872 - mōšê

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מֹשֶׁה
Transliteration
mōšê
Pronunciation
mo-sheh'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1254

Strong’s Definitions

מֹשֶׁה Môsheh, mo-sheh'; from H4871; drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver:—Moses.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 766x

The KJV translates Strong's H4872 in the following manner: Moses (766x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 766x
The KJV translates Strong's H4872 in the following manner: Moses (766x).

  1. Moses = "drawn"

    1. the prophet and lawgiver, leader of the exodus

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֹשֶׁה Môsheh, mo-sheh'; from H4871; drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver:—Moses.
STRONGS H4872: Abbreviations
משֶׂה 767 proper name, masculine Moses, the great Hebrew leader, prophet and lawgiver (probably = Egyptian mes, mesu, child, son, EbGS 539, compare DiExodus 2:10, where see also older (abandoned) etymology); — מ׳ Exodus 2:10 + משֶׁ֑ה Exodus 2:15 +; name occurs + 706 times in Hexateuch (Exodus + 290 times, Leviticus + 86 times, Numbers + 233 times, Deuteronomy + 38 times, Joshua + 59 times), Judges + 4 times + Judges 18:30 where read משֶׁה for מְנַשֶּׁה (compare GFM); 1 Samuel 12:6, 1 Samuel 12:8, Kings + 10 times, Micah 6:4; Jeremiah 15:1; Isaiah 63:11, Isaiah 63:12; Malachi 3:22 [Malachi 4:4]; Psalm 77:21 [Psalm 77:20] + 7 times; Chronicles + 3 times, Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:13; — Moses was son of Amram and Jochebed Exodus 6:20; Numbers 26:59 (both P), 1 Chronicles 5:29 [1 Chronicles 6:3]; 1 Chronicles 23:13; of tribe of Levi Exodus 2:1 (E; compare also foregoing); (younger) brother of Aaron Exodus 4:14 (J), Exodus 7:1, Exodus 7:6 , Exodus 7:7 (P), etc., and brother of Miriam Numbers 26:59 (P), 1 Chronicles 5:29 [1 Chronicles 6:3] (compare Exodus 15:20 E); called prophet Deuteronomy 18:15, Deuteronomy 18:18; Deuteronomy 34:10; agent by whom י׳ gave law Exodus 20:19, Exodus 20:20, Exodus 20:21, Exodus 20:22 (E) +; especially P (כַּאֲשֶׁר אֶתמֿ׳ צִוָּת י׳, etc.), Exodus 39:1, 39:5, 7, 21, 26, 29, 31; 40:19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 32; Leviticus 7:38; 8:9, 13, 17, 27, 29 + often; lawgiver Deuteronomy 33:4; Joshua 1:7; Joshua 1:13 (D) +; priest, וְאַהֲרֹן בְּכִהֲנָיו מ׳ Psalm 99:6. Phrases are — (עַבְדּוֺ, עַבְדִּי, etc.) עֶבֶר י׳ מ׳ Exodus 14:31 (J), Numbers 12:7(E), Deuteronomy 34:5(JE), Joshua 1:1 (D) + 15 times Joshua. (D); 1 Kings 8:53, 1 Kings 8:56; 2 Kings 18:12; 2 Kings 21:8; Malachi 3:22 [Malachi 4:4]; 2 Chronicles 1:3; 2 Chronicles 24:6; Nehemiah 1:8; Nehemiah 9:14; Psalm 105:26; עֶבֶד אלהים מ׳ 1 Chronicles 6:34 [1 Chronicles 6:49]; 1 Chronicles 24:9; Nehemiah 10:30 [Nehemiah 10:29]; Daniel 9:11; אִישׁ הָאֱלּהִים מ׳ Ezra 3:2; Psalm 90:1 תּוֺרַת מ׳ Joshua 8:32 (D), 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Malachi 3:22 [Malachi 4:4]; 2 Chronicles 23:18; 2 Chronicles 30:16; Ezra 3:2; Ezra 7:6; Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:13; סֵפֶר מ׳ 2 Chronicles 25:4; 2 Chronicles 35:12; Nehemiah 13:1; סֵפֶר תּוֺרַת מ׳ Joshua 8:31 (D), Joshua 23:6 (D), 2 Kings 14:6; Nehemiah 8:1.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4873.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

2:1; 2:10; 2:15; 4:14; 6:20; 7:1; 7:6; 7:7; 14:31; 15:20; 20:19; 20:20; 20:21; 20:22; 39:1; 39:5; 39:7; 39:21; 39:26; 39:29; 39:31; 40:19; 40:21; 40:25; 40:27; 40:29; 40:32

Leviticus

7:38; 8:9; 8:13; 8:17; 8:27; 8:29

Numbers

12:7; 26:59; 26:59

Deuteronomy

18:15; 18:18; 33:4; 34:5; 34:10

Joshua

1:1; 1:7; 1:13; 8:31; 8:32; 23:6

Judges

18:30

1 Samuel

12:6; 12:8

1 Kings

2:3; 8:53; 8:56

2 Kings

14:6; 18:12; 21:8; 23:25

1 Chronicles

6:3; 6:3; 6:49; 23:13; 24:9

2 Chronicles

1:3; 23:18; 24:6; 25:4; 30:16; 35:12

Ezra

3:2; 3:2; 7:6

Nehemiah

1:8; 8:1; 9:14; 10:29; 13:1

Psalms

77:20; 90:1; 99:6; 105:26

Isaiah

63:11; 63:12

Jeremiah

15:1

Daniel

9:11; 9:11; 9:11; 9:13; 9:13

Micah

6:4

Malachi

4:4; 4:4; 4:4

H4872

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4872 matches the Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê),
which occurs 766 times in 704 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 15 (Exo 2:10–Exo 7:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses,[fn] for she explained, “I lifted him out of the water.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:11 - Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:14 - The man replied, “Who appointed you to be our prince and judge? Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?”
Then Moses was afraid, thinking, “Everyone knows what I did.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - And sure enough, Pharaoh heard what had happened, and he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian.
When Moses arrived in Midian, he sat down beside a well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17 - But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:21 - Moses accepted the invitation, and he settled there with him. In time, Reuel gave Moses his daughter Zipporah to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro,[fn] the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai,[fn] the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:6 - I am the God of your father[fn]—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:13 - But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what should I tell them?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:14 - God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.[fn] Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:15 - God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh,[fn] the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.
This is my eternal name,
my name to remember for all generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - But Moses protested again, “What if they won’t believe me or listen to me? What if they say, ‘The LORD never appeared to you’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - “Throw it down on the ground,” the LORD told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4 - Then the LORD told him, “Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:10 - But Moses pleaded with the LORD, “O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I’m not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the LORD became angry with Moses. “All right,” he said. “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he speaks well. And look! He is on his way to meet you now. He will be delighted to see you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - So Moses went back home to Jethro, his father-in-law. “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt,” Moses said. “I don’t even know if they are still alive.”
“Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - Before Moses left Midian, the LORD said to him, “Return to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you have died.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to the land of Egypt. In his hand he carried the staff of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - And the LORD told Moses, “When you arrive back in Egypt, go to Pharaoh and perform all the miracles I have empowered you to do. But I will harden his heart so he will refuse to let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - Now the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go out into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So Aaron went and met Moses at the mountain of God, and he embraced him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:28 - Moses then told Aaron everything the LORD had commanded him to say. And he told him about the miraculous signs the LORD had commanded him to perform.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 - Then Moses and Aaron returned to Egypt and called all the elders of Israel together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:30 - Aaron told them everything the LORD had told Moses, and Moses performed the miraculous signs as they watched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - After this presentation to Israel’s leaders, Moses and Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. They told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go so they may hold a festival in my honor in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - Pharaoh replied, “Moses and Aaron, why are you distracting the people from their tasks? Get back to work!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:20 - As they left Pharaoh’s court, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who were waiting outside for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Then Moses went back to the LORD and protested, “Why have you brought all this trouble on your own people, Lord? Why did you send me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - Then the LORD told Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. When he feels the force of my strong hand, he will let the people go. In fact, he will force them to leave his land!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:2 - And God said to Moses, “I am Yahweh—‘the LORD.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:9 - So Moses told the people of Israel what the LORD had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:10 - Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - “But LORD!” Moses objected. “My own people won’t listen to me anymore. How can I expect Pharaoh to listen? I’m such a clumsy speaker![fn]”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them orders for the Israelites and for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. The LORD commanded Moses and Aaron to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20 - Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she gave birth to his sons, Aaron and Moses. (Amram lived to be 137 years old.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:26 - The Aaron and Moses named in this list are the same ones to whom the LORD said, “Lead the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:27 - It was Moses and Aaron who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, about leading the people of Israel out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:28 - When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:29 - he said to him, “I am the LORD! Tell Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, everything I am telling you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses argued with the LORD, saying, “I can’t do it! I’m such a clumsy speaker! Why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pay close attention to this. I will make you seem like God to Pharaoh, and your brother, Aaron, will be your prophet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:6 - So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:7 - Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three when they made their demands to Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:8 - Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:10 - So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did what the LORD had commanded them. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn,[fn] and he still refuses to let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - Then the LORD said to Moses: “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and raise your hand over the waters of Egypt—all its rivers, canals, ponds, and all the reservoirs. Turn all the water to blood. Everywhere in Egypt the water will turn to blood, even the water stored in wooden bowls and stone pots.’”

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