What Does Exodus 10:15 Mean in the King James?
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.
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 Hebrew uses the same root for what the hail “left” and what finally “remained”, the locusts consume the remnant itself.
THE MEANING
You meet devastation in sequence: the locusts cover the land’s face, darken it, and consume the herbs and fruit the hail left. The final image is absolute, no green remains anywhere in Egypt.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what survives one devastation is therefore safe: the verse names what the hail left, then shows it consumed.
THE ROOT
הוֹתִיר
hōtîr
GROWS FROM
יתר
Remain over, be left behind, or be in excess.
The verse uses this root first for what the hail had left, then again in נוֹתַר (nōṯar, “remained”) for what is no longer left after the locusts. Hebrew makes the remnant and its disappearance part of one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
nōṯar: remained; was left over
נוֹתַר
This later form shares the root יתר and echoes the hail’s הוֹתִיר: what one force left behind is erased by the next.
yeter: remainder; surplus
יֶתֶר
Exodus 10:5 uses this noun for the crop that escaped the hail, naming the locusts’ next food as the remainder.
THE PATTERN
As devastation advances, it consumes the green remainder until the land is bare.
And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: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.The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.THE THREAD
And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:Exodus 10:5 names the hail’s surviving crop with יֶתֶר (yeter, “remainder”), from the same root as הוֹתִיר (“had left”) and נוֹתַר (“remained”) here. The root links the remnant named in one verse to what the locusts consume in the other.
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