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then you shall make knownוְהוֹדַעְתֶּםto your sons,אֶת בְּנֵיכֶםsaying,לֵאמֹר‘On dry groundבַּיַּבָּשָׁהIsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלcrossedעָבַרthisהַזֶּהJordan.’אֶת הַיַּרְדֵּן
Joshua 4:22
Study it in the app“then you shall make known to your sons, saying, ‘On dry ground Israel crossed this Jordan.’”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 4:22, word by word
- then you shall make knownהוֹדַעְתֶּםhodatem
make known
To make someone aware, teach.
Where else “hodatem” appears- to your sonsבְּנֵיbene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “bene” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears- ‘On dry groundיַּבָּשָׁהyabasha
dry land
What is dry: dry land, in contrast with the sea.
Where else “yabasha” appears- 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.
Where else “yisrael” appears- crossedעָבַרavar
pass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “avar” appears- Jordan.’יַּרְדֵּןyarden
Jordan
See it on the mapWhere else “yarden” appears
Places in this verse
Jordan
Today: Jordan River: Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Dead Sea
Israel's main river; it flows from Mount Hermon in the north, through the Sea of Galilee, to the Dead Sea.
Israel crossed it on dry ground to enter the promised land (Josh 3:17). Naaman was healed in it (2 Kgs 5:14), and Jesus was immersed in it (Matt 3:13).
The context
21And he said to the sons of Israel, “When your sons ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’
22 · This verse (above)
23For YHWH your Elohim dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as YHWH your Elohim did to the Sea of Reeds, which he dried up before us until we had crossed,