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that you will keep aliveוְהַחֲיִתֶםmy fatherאֶת אָבִיand my motherוְאֶת אִמִּיand my brothersוְאֶת אַחַיand my sistersוְאֶת אַחְיוֹתַיand allוְאֵת כָּלthatאֲשֶׁרthey have,לָהֶםand deliverוְהִצַּלְתֶּםour livesאֶת נַפְשֹׁתֵינוּfrom death.”מִמָּוֶת
Joshua 2:13
Study it in the app“that you will keep alive my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 2:13, word by word
- that you will keep aliveהַחֲיִתֶםhachayitem
keep alive
To make someone go on living, or rescue them from death.
Where else “hachayitem” appears- my fatherאָבִavi
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appears- and my motherאִמִּimi
mother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “imi” appears- and my brothersאַחַaach
brother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “aach” appears- and my sistersאַחְיוֹתַachyota
sister
A woman who has the same parents as another person, or belongs to their family.
Where else “achyota” appears- and deliverהִצַּלְתֶּםhitsaltem
rescue
To take someone out of danger or out of his enemy's hands.
Where else “hitsaltem” appears- our livesנַפְשֹׁתֵיnafshote
life
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nafshote” appears- from deathמָּוֶתmavet
death
The end of life: when someone stops breathing and returns to dust.
Where else “mavet” appears
The context
12Now please swear to me by YHWH, since I have shown loyal love to you, that you also will show loyal love to the house of my father, and give me a sign of truth,
13 · This verse (above)
14And the men said to her, “Our life for yours to the death, if you do not tell this matter of ours. And it shall be, when YHWH gives us the land, that we will show you loyal love and faithfulness.”