Study it in the app“And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “How long will you be slack about going in to take possession of the land that YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has given you?”
And Joshuaוַ יְהוֹשֻׁעַsaidיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלthe sonsבְּנֵיof Israel,יִשְׂרָאֵל“How longעַד אָנָהwill youאַתֶּםbe slackמִתְרַפִּיםabout going inלָבוֹאto take possessionלָרֶשֶׁתof the landהָאָרֶץthatאֲשֶׁרYHWH,יְהוָהthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof your fathers,אֲבוֹתֵיכֶםhas givenנָתַןyou?לָכֶם
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” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearswhere to?
Where? To where?; "how long?"
Where else “ana” appearsbe lazy
Unwilling to work.
Where else “mitrapim” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “vo” appearspossess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “reshet” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” 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” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “natan” appears2And there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes who had not divided their inheritance.
3 · This verse (above)
4Provide for yourselves three men for each tribe, and I will send them; and they will rise and walk about through the land and write it according to their inheritance, and come to me.
