Keluaran 12:33

12:33 The Egyptians were urging ¹  the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, ²  for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

[12:33]  ¹ tn The verb used here (חָזַק, khazaq) is the same verb used for Pharaoh’s heart being hardened. It conveys the idea of their being resolved or insistent in this – they were not going to change.

[12:33]  ² tn The phrase uses two construct infinitives in a hendiadys, the first infinitive becoming the modifier.