Exodus 16:3
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

Young's Literal Translation
and the sons of Israel say unto them, ‘Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety—for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.’

King James Bible
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Hebrew
“If only
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interjection
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

we had died
מוּתֵ֤נוּ (mū·ṯê·nū)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common plural
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

by the LORD’s
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

hand
בְיַד־ (ḇə·yaḏ-)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3027: A hand

in the land
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

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

[they said].
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

“There we sat
בְּשִׁבְתֵּ֙נוּ֙ (bə·šiḇ·tê·nū)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

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

pots
סִ֣יר (sîr)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 5518: A pot, a thorn, a hook

of meat
הַבָּשָׂ֔ר (hab·bā·śār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

and ate
בְּאָכְלֵ֥נוּ (bə·’ā·ḵə·lê·nū)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common plural
Strong's 398: To eat

our fill
לָשֹׂ֑בַע (lā·śō·ḇa‘)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7648: Satisfaction, joy)

of bread,
לֶ֖חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

but
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you have brought
הוֹצֵאתֶ֤ם (hō·w·ṣê·ṯem)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

us into
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

this
הַזֶּ֔ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

desert
הַמִּדְבָּ֣ר (ham·miḏ·bār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

to starve
בָּרָעָֽב׃ (bā·rā·‘āḇ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger

this
הַזֶּ֖ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

whole
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

assembly
הַקָּהָ֥ל (haq·qā·hāl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

to death!”
לְהָמִ֛ית (lə·hā·mîṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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