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Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַand allוְכָלIsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלlet themselves be beatenוַיִּנָּגְעוּbefore themלִפְנֵיהֶםand fledוַיָּנֻסוּby the wayדֶּרֶךְof the wilderness.הַמִּדְבָּר
Joshua 8:15
Study it in the app“Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 8:15, word by word
- 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- 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- let themselves be beatenיִּנָּגְעוּyinagu
strike
To hit, afflict with a plague.
Where else “yinagu” appears- before themפְנֵיfene
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fene” appears- and fledיָּנֻסוּyanusu
flee
To run off to get away from a danger or an enemy.
Where else “yanusu” appears- by the wayדֶּרֶךְderech
road
The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.
Where else “derech” appears- of the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears
The context
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.
15 · This verse (above)
16All the people who were in Ai were called out to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.