Joshua 24:31

“And Israel served YHWH all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who prolonged their days after Joshua and who knew all the work of YHWH that he had done for Israel.”

Joshua 24:31 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Joshua 24:31, word by word

And Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael

Israel

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.

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servedיַּעֲבֹדyaavod

worship

To honor and obey God, or other gods, as his people.

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YHWHיְהוָהyehva

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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the daysיְמֵיyeme

time

Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.

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of Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַyehoshua

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).

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of the eldersזְּקֵנִיםzekenim

elder

The senior men who led a city or the people.

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prolongedהֶאֱרִיכוּheerichu

be long, prolong

Be long, last long; prolong.

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knewיָדְעוּyadu

know

To know something, realize.

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the workמַעֲשֵׂהmaase

work

What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.

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he had doneעָשָׂהasa

do

To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.

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The context

30And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

31 · This verse (above)

32And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel had brought up from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of the field that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph.

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