Study it in the app“I was forty years old when Moses the servant of YHWH sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him word as it was in my heart.”
I wasאָנֹכִיfortyאַרְבָּעִיםyearsשָׁנָהoldבֶּןwhenבִּMosesמֹשֶׁהthe servantעֶבֶדof YHWHיְהוָהsentשְׁלֹחַmeאֹתִיfrom Kadesh-barneaמִקָּדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַto spy outלְרַגֵּלthe land,הָאָרֶץand I brought backוָאָשֵׁבto himאֹתוֹwordדָּבָרasכַּאֲשֶׁרit wasinעִםmy heart.לְבָבִי
forty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appearsage
The years of a person's life.
Where else “shana” appearsyears old
To give someone's age, how long they have lived.
Where else “ben” appearsMoses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appearsservant of YHWH
YHWH's servant, like Moses or David.
Where else “eved” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “sheloach” appearsKadesh-barnea
See it on the mapWhere else “kadesh” appearsspy
To go through a land secretly to learn about it; the scouts.
Where else “ragel” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsbring back
To return something, restore.
Where else “ashev” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levavi” appearsKadesh-barnea ?
Today: possibly Ain Qudeirat, Sinai/Negev border
An oasis in the desert south of Canaan; its exact site is not certain.
Moses sent the twelve spies from there (Num 13:26). Because of their unbelief, Israel wandered in the wilderness almost forty years (Deut 2:14).
6Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word that YHWH spoke to Moses the man of Elohim about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.
7 · This verse (above)
8But my brothers who went up with me made melt the heart of the people, while I followed fully YHWH my Elohim.
