Exodus 9:2

For if you refuse to release them ¹  and continue holding them, ² 

Ex 4:23; Ex 8:2; Ex 10:4; Le 26:14-16,23,24,27,28; Ps 7:11,12; Ps 68:21; Isa 1:20; Ro 2:8; Re 2:21,22; Re 16:9

¹ tn The object “them” is implied in the context.

² tn עוֹד (’od), an adverb meaning “yet, still,” can be inflected with suffixes and used as a predicator of existence, with the nuance “to still be, yet be” (T. O. Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 171-72, §137). Then, it is joined here with the Hiphil participle מַחֲזִיק (makhaziq) to form the sentence “you are still holding them.”