Study it in the app“So the people positioned all the camp that was to the north of the city and its rear to the west of the city, and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.”
So the peopleהָעָםpositionedוַיָּשִׂימוּallאֶת כָּלthe campהַמַּחֲנֶהthatאֲשֶׁרwas to the northמִצְּפוֹןof the cityלָעִירand its rearוְאֶת עֲקֵבוֹto the westמִיָּםof the city,לָעִירand Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַwentוַיֵּלֶךְthatהַהוּאnightבַּלַּיְלָהinto the middleבְּתוֹךְof the valley.הָעֵמֶק
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsput
To put something somewhere.
Where else “yasimu” appearscamp
A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
Where else “machane” appearsnorth
North.
Where else “tsefon” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearsrear
The part that comes behind in a group or army.
Where else “akev” appearswest
Literally "the sea": the side where the sun sets.
Where else “yam” 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” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearsmidst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “toch” appearsvalley
Valley, broad low plain.
Where else “emek” appears“Its rear” is literally “its heel,” the back part; it can be understood as the troops of the ambush (v. 12).
12He took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
13 · This verse (above)
14And it came about, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, at the appointed time before the Arabah; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
