Exodus 2:18
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

Young's Literal Translation
And they come in to Reuel their father, and he saith, ‘Wherefore have ye hastened to come in to-day?’

King James Bible
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How [is it that] ye are come so soon to day?

Hebrew
When [the daughters] returned
וַתָּבֹ֕אנָה (wat·tā·ḇō·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

their father
אֲבִיהֶ֑ן (’ă·ḇî·hen)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 1: Father

Reuel,
רְעוּאֵ֖ל (rə·‘ū·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7467: Reuel -- 'friend of God', Moses' father-in-law, also an Edomite, a Gadite, and a Benjamite

he asked them,
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Why
מַדּ֛וּעַ (mad·dū·a‘)
Interrogative
Strong's 4069: Why? for what reason?

have you returned
בֹּ֖א (bō)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

so early
מִהַרְתֶּ֥ן (mi·har·ten)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person feminine plural
Strong's 4116: To be liquid, flow easily, to hurry, promptly

today?”
הַיּֽוֹם׃ (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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