Exodus 1:15
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

Young's Literal Translation
And the king of Egypt speaketh to the midwives, the Hebrewesses, (of whom the name of the one [is] Shiphrah, and the name of the second Puah),

King James Bible
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Hebrew
Then the king
מֶ֣לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Egypt
מִצְרַ֔יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

said
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to the Hebrew
הָֽעִבְרִיֹּ֑ת (hā·‘iḇ·rî·yōṯ)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine plural
Strong's 5680: Hebrews -- perhaps descendant of Eber, also another name for an Israelite

midwives,
לַֽמְיַלְּדֹ֖ת (lam·yal·lə·ḏōṯ)
Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

whose
אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

names were
שֵׁ֤ם (šêm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8034: A name

Shiphrah
שִׁפְרָ֔ה (šip̄·rāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 8236: Shiphrah -- 'fairness', a Hebrew midwife

and
הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית (haš·šê·nîṯ)
Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular
Strong's 8145: Second (an ordinal number)

Puah,
פּוּעָֽה׃ (pū·‘āh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6326: Puah -- an Israelite midwife

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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