Exodus 5:14
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
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Exodus 5:19
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
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דָּבָר
dâbâr · daw-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
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Strong's first: Exodus 5:19Strong's last: Exodus 5:19
Open full H1697 profile →חֹק
chôq · khoke
1 times translated as this KJV form127 total Strong's occurrences
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
Strong's KJV usage: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, × necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
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Strong's first: Exodus 5:14Strong's last: Exodus 5:14
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And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
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And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
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task
T'ASK, noun
1. Business imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount of labor. Each man has his task When he has performed his task his time is his own. Exodus 5:14.
2. Business; employment.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
3. Burdensome employment.
To take to task to reprove; to reprimand; as, to take one to task for idleness.
T'ASK, verb transitive
1. To impose a task; to assign to one a definite amount of business or labor.
2. To burden with some employment; to require to perform.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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