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She said,וַתֹּאמֶר“According to your words,כְּדִבְרֵיכֶםsoכֶּןit is.”הוּאThen she sent them away,וַתְּשַׁלְּחֵםand they went.וַיֵּלֵכוּAnd she tiedוַתִּקְשֹׁרthe cordאֶת תִּקְוַתof scarletהַשָּׁנִיin the window.בַּחַלּוֹן
Joshua 2:21
Study it in the app“She said, “According to your words, so it is.” Then she sent them away, and they went. And she tied the cord of scarlet in the window.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 2:21, word by word
- She saidתֹּאמֶרtomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appears- “According to your wordsדִבְרֵיdivre
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appears- Then she sent them awayתְּשַׁלְּחֵteshalche
send away
To send away, or divorce one's wife.
Where else “teshalche” appears- and they wentיֵּלֵכוּyelechu
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelechu” appears- And she tiedתִּקְשֹׁרtikshor
bind
To knot something fast; or be joined to another.
Where else “tikshor” appears- the cordתִּקְוַתtikvat
cord
A thin cord of thread, like the scarlet one tied in Rahab's window.
Where else “tikvat” appears- of scarletשָּׁנִיshani
scarlet
Scarlet, crimson; thread dyed that color.
Where else “shani” appears- in the windowחַלּוֹןchalon
window
Window: an opening in a wall.
Where else “chalon” appears
The context
20But if you tell this matter of ours, then we will be free from your oath that you have made us swear.”
21 · This verse (above)
22They went and came to the hill country and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers searched along all the way but did not find them.