Exo 5:6 | TSK | e4.org | taskmasters Nogesim , literally, exactors, oppressors. These taskmasters were Egyptians ( ), but the officers were Hebrews. . , , , , ; officers Shoterim , from the Arabic saytara , to overlook, superintend, seems to denote, as musaytar in Arabic also does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure answerable for them to Government. Compare . ; , ; , , ;

‏ Exodus 5:6

taskmasters Nogesim, literally, exactors, oppressors. These taskmasters were Egyptians (Exod 1:11), but the officers were Hebrews. Exod 5:14. Exod 5:10, Exod 5:13, Exod 5:15, Exod 5:19, Exod 1:11; Prov 12:10

officers Shoterim, from the Arabic saytara, to overlook, superintend, seems to denote, as musaytar in Arabic also does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure answerable for them to Government. Compare Exod 2:14. Num 11:16; Deut 1:15, Deut 16:18; Josh 8:33, Josh 24:1, Josh 24:4; 2Chr 26:11