| “And it came” | וַיָּבֹ֞א | To go or come (in a wide variety of applications) | came |
| “between” | בֵּ֣ין׀ | Between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or | between |
| “the camp” | מַֽחֲנֵ֣ה | An encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts) | camp |
| “of the Egyptians” | מִצְרַ֗יִם | Mitsrajim, i.e., Upper and Lower Egypt | Egyptians |
| “and the camp” | מַֽחֲנֵ֣ה | An encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts) | camp |
| “of Israel;” | יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
| “and it was” | וַיְהִ֤י | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | and it was |
| “a cloud” | הֶֽעָנָן֙ | A cloud (as covering the sky), i.e., the nimbus or thunder-cloud | cloud |
| “and darkness” | וְהַחֹ֔שֶׁךְ | The dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness | darkness |
| “to them,” | | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | |
| “but it gave light” | וַיָּ֖אֶר | To be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically) | gave light |
| “by night” | הַלָּ֑יְלָה | Properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity | night |
| “to these:” | | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | |
| “so that the one” | זֶ֛ה | The masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that | one |
| “came not near” | קָרַ֥ב | To approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose | came not near |
| “the other” | זֶ֖ה | The masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that | other |
| “all” | כָּל | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | all |
| “the night.” | הַלָּֽיְלָה׃ | Properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity | night |