Study it in the app“And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear ground for yourself there in the land of the Perizzite and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.””
And Joshuaוַ יְהוֹשֻׁעַsaidיֹּאמֶרto them,אֲלֵיהֶם“Ifאִםyouאַתָּהarea numerousרַבpeople,עַםgo upעֲלֵהto the forestהַיַּעְרָהand clear groundוּבֵרֵאתָfor yourselfלְךָthereשָׁםin the landבְּאֶרֶץof the Perizziteהַפְּרִזִּיand the Rephaim,וְהָרְפָאִיםsinceכִּיthe hill countryהַרof Ephraimאֶפְרָיִםis too narrowאָץfor you.”לְךָ
Joshua
Joshua, the helper and successor of Moses. The name means "YHWH saves"; in Greek it is the same name as "Jesus". Other men bore it, among them the high priest after the exile (Haggai 1:1).
Where else “yehoshua” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsmany
A great number of people or things.
Where else “rav” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appearsgo up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “ale” appearsforest
Land covered with trees, where many grow together.
Where else “yara” appearsclear ground
To fell trees, open up a forest.
Where else “vereta” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsPerizzite
Perizzite: one of the peoples that lived in Canaan before Israel.
Where else “perizi” appearsRephaim
An ancient people of very tall men.
Where else “refaim” appearshill country
A whole region of high ground, like that of Ephraim or Judah.
Where else “har” 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” appearsbe too narrow
To be too small, cramped.
Where else “ats” appears14And the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me as an inheritance one lot and one allotment, when I am a numerous people, since up to now YHWH has blessed me?”
15 · This verse (above)
16And the sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanite who live in the land of the valley, both those in Beth-shean and its towns and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”
