Therefore they did set
suwm (soom)
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)wholly, work.
over them taskmasters
mac (mas)
a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor -- discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).
sar (sar)
a head person (of any rank or class) -- captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, (-task-)master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
to afflict
`anah (aw-naw')
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
them with their burdens
cbalah (seb-aw-law')
porterage -- burden.
And they built
banah (baw-naw')
to build (literally and figuratively) -- (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), surely.
for Pharaoh
Par`oh (par-o')
Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings -- Pharaoh.
treasure
micknah (mis-ken-aw')
a magazine -- store(-house), treasure.
cities
`iyr (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pithom
Pithom (pee-thome')
Pithom, a place in Egypt -- Pithom.
and Raamses
Ra`mcec (rah-mes-ace')
of Egyptian origin; Rameses or Raamses, a place in Egypt -- Raamses, Rameses.
