Study it in the app“But they did not dispossess the Canaanite who lived in Gezer; so the Canaanite has lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and became forced laborers.”
But they did notוְלֹאdispossessהוֹרִישׁוּthe Canaaniteהַכְּנַעֲנִיwho livedהַיּוֹשֵׁבin Gezer;בְּגָזֶרso the Canaaniteוַ הַכְּנַעֲנִיhas livedיֵּשֶׁבin the midstבְּקֶרֶבof Ephraimאֶפְרַיִםtoעַדthisהַזֶּהday,הַיּוֹםand becameוַיְהִיforcedלְמַסlaborers.עֹבֵד
dispossess
To drive others out of their land.
Where else “horishu” appearsCanaanite
Someone from Canaan, before Israel.
Where else “kenaani” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshev” appearsGezer
See it on the mapWhere else “gazer” appearsmidst
In the midst of: "among the people".
Where else “kerev” appearsEphraim
Ephraim, the second son of Joseph; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later a name of the northern kingdom. The name sounds like "be fruitful".
Where else “efrayim” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearsbecome
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yehi” appearsforced labor
Forced labor imposed on a subject people.
Where else “mas” appearsenslave
To make others serve, enslave.
Where else “oved” appearsGezer
Today: Tel Gezer ruins, Israel
A city on the plain, about 19 miles (30 km) northwest of Jerusalem.
Joshua defeated its king (Josh 10:33). Pharaoh took it and gave it to his daughter, Solomon's wife, and Solomon fortified it (1 Kgs 9:16-17).
9together with the cities that were set apart for the sons of Ephraim within the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.
10 · This verse (above)
