Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleThe taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.” Young's Literal Translation and the exactors are making haste, saying, ‘Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.’ King James Bible And the taskmasters hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw. Hebrew The taskmastersוְהַנֹּגְשִׂ֖ים (wə·han·nō·ḡə·śîm) Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 5065: To drive, to tax, harass, tyrannize kept pressing them, אָצִ֣ים (’ā·ṣîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 213: To press, to be close, hurry, withdraw saying, לֵאמֹ֑ר (lê·mōr) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 559: To utter, say “Fulfill כַּלּ֤וּ (kal·lū) Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent your quota דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause each day, י֣וֹם (yō·wm) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day just as you did when כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (ka·’ă·šer) Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that straw הַתֶּֽבֶן׃ (hat·te·ḇen) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8401: Material, refuse haum, stalks of grain was provided.” בִּהְי֥וֹת (bih·yō·wṯ) Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be |