* taskmasters.
{Nogesim,} literally, exactors, oppressors. These
taskmasters were Egyptians, (ch. 1:11,) but the officers were
Hebrews. See ver. 14.
# 10,13,15,19; 1:11; Pr 12:10|
* officers.
{Shoterim,} from the Arabic {saytara,} to overlook,
superintend, seems to denote, as {musaytar} in Arabic also
does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been
somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every
city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is
entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure
answerable for them to Government. Compare ch. 2:14.
# Nu 11:16; De 1:15; 16:18; Jos 8:33; 24:1,4; 2Ch 26:11|
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