Joshua 7:22

“So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and look, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.”

Joshua 7:22 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Joshua 7:22, word by word

So 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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sentיִּשְׁלַחyishlach

send

To send someone or something.

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messengersמַלְאָכִיםmalachim

messenger

Someone sent on an errand.

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and they ranיָּרֻצוּyarutsu

run

To move quickly on foot, at a run.

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to the tentאֹהֱלָohela

tent

A home of cloth or skins on poles, where herdsmen lived; also one's home.

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it was hiddenטְמוּנָהtemuna

hide, bury

Hide by burying in the ground.

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with the silverכֶּסֶףkesef

silver

A white, valuable metal, the one most used after gold.

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The context

21I saw among the spoil one fine cloak from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one tongue of gold whose weight was fifty shekels; and I coveted them and took them. And look, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under it.”

22 · This verse (above)

23They took them from the middle of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons of Israel, and they poured them out before YHWH.

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