Exodus 12:33

12:33 The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, “We are all dead!”


tn The verb used here (חָזַק, khazaq) is the same verb used for Pharaoh’s heart being hardened. It conveys the idea of their being resolved or insistent in this – they were not going to change.

tn The phrase uses two construct infinitives in a hendiadys, the first infinitive becoming the modifier.