Exodus 17:4

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with ¹  this people? – a little more ²  and they will stone me!” ³ 

Ex 14:15; Ex 15:25; Nu 11:11; Nu 14:10; Nu 16:19; 1Sa 30:6; Joh 8:59; Joh 10:31; Ac 7:50; Ac 14:19

¹ tn The preposition lamed (ל) is here specification, meaning “with respect to” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 49, §273).

² tn Or “they are almost ready to stone me.”

³ tn The perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive almost develops an independent force; this is true in sentences where it follows an expression of time, as here (see GKC 334 §112.x).