Exodus 2:3
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

Young's Literal Translation
and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;

King James Bible
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.

Hebrew
But when she could
יָכְלָ֣ה (yā·ḵə·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3201: To be able, have power

no
וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

longer
עוֹד֮ (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

hide him,
הַצְּפִינוֹ֒ (haṣ·ṣə·p̄î·nōw)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6845: To hide, to hoard, reserve, to deny, to protect, to lurk

she got
וַתִּֽקַּֽח־ (wat·tiq·qaḥ-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

him
לוֹ֙ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

a papyrus
גֹּ֔מֶא (gō·me)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1573: An absorbent, the bulrush, the papyrus

basket
תֵּ֣בַת (tê·ḇaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8392: A box, chest

and coated it
וַתַּחְמְרָ֥ה (wat·taḥ·mə·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 2560: To boil up, to ferment, to glow, to smear with pitch

with tar
בַחֵמָ֖ר (ḇa·ḥê·mār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2564: Bitumen, asphalt

and pitch.
וּבַזָּ֑פֶת (ū·ḇaz·zā·p̄eṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2203: Asphalt

Then she placed
וַתָּ֤שֶׂם (wat·tā·śem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

the child
הַיֶּ֔לֶד (hay·ye·leḏ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

in
בָּהּ֙ (bāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

[the basket]
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and set
וַתָּ֥שֶׂם (wat·tā·śem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

it among the reeds
בַּסּ֖וּף (bas·sūp̄)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5488: A reed, the papyrus

along
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the bank
שְׂפַ֥ת (śə·p̄aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

of the Nile.
הַיְאֹֽר׃ (hay·’ōr)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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