Study it in the app“And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: all the people who came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way when they came out of Egypt.”
And this isוְזֶהthe reasonהַדָּבָרwhyאֲשֶׁרJoshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַcircumcised:מָלallכָּלthe peopleהָעָםwho came outהַיֹּצֵאof Egypt,מִמִּצְרַיִםthe males,הַזְּכָרִיםallכֹּלthe menאַנְשֵׁיof war,הַמִּלְחָמָהhad diedמֵתוּin the wildernessבַמִּדְבָּרon the wayבַּדֶּרֶךְwhen they came outבְּצֵאתָםof Egypt.מִמִּצְרָיִם
thing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appearsJoshua
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” appearscircumcise
To circumcise, also the heart.
Where else “mal” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yotse” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearsmale
A person of the male sex, man or boy.
Where else “zecharim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anshe” appearswar, battle
War, battle.
Where else “milchama” appearsdie
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “metu” appearswilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appearsroad
The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.
Where else “derech” appearsEgypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
3So Joshua made for himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the Hill of the Foreskins.
4 · This verse (above)
5For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness on the way when they came out of Egypt they had not circumcised.
