Joshua 23:5

“And YHWH your Elohim, he will push them back before you and dispossess them before you, and you shall take possession of their land, just as YHWH your Elohim spoke to you.”

Joshua 23:5 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Joshua 23:5, word by word

And YHWHיהוָהyhva

YHWH

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.

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your Elohimאֱלֹהֵיelohe

Elohim

The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.

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will push them backיֶהְדֳּפֵyehdofe

push, thrust

Push: drive someone back or down with force.

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before youפְּנֵיpene

before

Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.

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and dispossessהוֹרִישׁhorish

dispossess

To drive others out of their land.

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of their landאַרְצָartsa

land

A region or nation, above all Israel's.

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spokeדִּבֶּרdiber

promise

To promise, say what will be done.

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The context

4See, I have allotted to you these nations that remain as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

5 · This verse (above)

6And be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the instruction of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left,

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