The Meaning of Exodus 9:32 Explained

Exodus 9:32

KJV: But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

YLT: and the wheat and the rye have not been smitten, for they are late.

Darby: But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they were not come out into ear.

ASV: But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But the wheat  and the rie  were not smitten:  for they  [were] not grown up. 

What does Exodus 9:32 Mean?

Context Summary

Exodus 9:13-35 - Mighty Thunderings And Hail
This paragraph recalls Revelation 7:3. The great angel there commanded that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree, until the servants of God had been sealed on their foreheads. Only when this had been effected did the trumpets give signal of the disasters that broke successively on the earth. See Revelation 8:7, etc. The only spot in which the soul is safe is within the encircling provisions of the covenant. Israel stood there and was safe, not only from the hail but from the destroying sword. It was as safe a spot as the center of a cyclone is said to be. God had bound Himself by the most solemn sanctions to be a God to His people and deliver them. It was in pursuance of this pledge that He was their pavilion and canopy in this awful hour, catching the hailstones on His pinions, and securing them from hurt. Directly we trust in Christ He becomes our hiding-place from the storms of judgment and condemnation, Hebrews 13:20. [source]

Chapter Summary: Exodus 9

1  The plague on livestock
8  The plague of boils
13  The message of Moses about the hail,
22  The plague of hail
27  Pharaoh pleads with Moses, but yet is hardened

What do the individual words in Exodus 9:32 mean?

But the wheat and the spelt not were struck for [are] late crops they
וְהַחִטָּ֥ה וְהַכֻּסֶּ֖מֶת לֹ֣א נֻכּ֑וּ כִּ֥י אֲפִילֹ֖ת הֵֽנָּה

וְהַחִטָּ֥ה  But  the  wheat 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: חִטָּה  
Sense: wheat.
וְהַכֻּסֶּ֖מֶת  and  the  spelt 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: כֻּסֶּמֶת  
Sense: spelt—a wheat-like crop planted and harvested in the fall or spring.
נֻכּ֑וּ  were  struck 
Parse: Verb, Pual, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: נָכָה  
Sense: to strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill.
אֲפִילֹ֖ת  [are]  late  crops 
Parse: Adjective, feminine plural
Root: אָפִיל  
Sense: late, ripe.

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