What Does Exodus 10:12 Mean in the King James?
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The locusts do not enter an untouched land: they rise over what the hail has left.
THE MEANING
You see the locusts rise over Egypt and consume the growth left after the hail. The land’s remainder is not outside the next devastation; it becomes its target.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the assumption that what survives one devastation is therefore safe; here, the remainder becomes the next target.
THE ROOT
הִשְׁאִיר
hish'ir
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
remain, be left over
The Hebrew for what the hail “left” comes from שאר, meaning “remain” or “be left over.” The root makes the surviving remainder visible, and this verse shows that what remains is still vulnerable to what comes next.
ALSO GROWS
she'erit: remnant
שְׁאֵרִית
The same root names what remains after loss, echoing the vegetation left after the hail.
nish'ar: remained, was left
נִשְׁאַר
This form makes the state of remaining explicit: the plants are left behind, but not protected from the locusts.
אַרְבֶּה
arbeh
GROWS FROM
רבה
ravah
be many, increase
“locusts” in this verse is arbeh. The locust’s name is linked to רבה, “be many” or “increase,” carrying the force of multiplication in its name. Here that growing multitude consumes the remainder left by the hail.
ALSO GROWS
ravah: become many, increase
רָבָה
The root’s sense of increasing illuminates the locust swarm’s force as it rises over the land.
hirbah: make many, multiply
הִרְבָּה
This causative form evokes multiplication, the quality associated with the locusts’ name.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משה
mashah
draw out, pull from water
Moses’ name is tied to משה, “draw out,” and is explained by the naming words in Exodus 2:10. Here the one drawn out extends his hand as the locusts are released over Egypt.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: draw out
מָשָׁה
This is the verb associated with Moses’ name and its meaning.
meshithihu: I drew him out
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
These are the words used to explain Moses’ name in Exodus 2:10.
THE PATTERN
What remains after an event becomes the material for what follows.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.THE THREAD
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.The word translated “left” in Exodus comes from שאר, the same root that gives Isaiah “remnant.” Exodus shows the remainder exposed to another force; Isaiah uses that word-family for those who remain after devastation.
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