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Then YHWHוַ יְהוָהsaidיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלJoshua,יְהוֹשֻׁעַ
Joshua 4:15
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Joshua 4:15, word by word
- Then 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.
Where else “yehva” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- 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).
Where else “yehoshua” appears
The context
14On that day YHWH made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they feared him just as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15 · This verse (above)
16“Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”