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But the kingוְאֶת מֶלֶךְof Aiהָעַיthey capturedתָּפְשׂוּaliveחָיand brought himוַיַּקְרִבוּ אֹתוֹtoאֶלJoshua.יְהוֹשֻׁעַ
Joshua 8:23
Study it in the app“But the king of Ai they captured alive and brought him to Joshua.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 8:23, word by word
- But the kingמֶלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- of Aiעַיay
Ai
See it on the mapWhere else “ay” appears- they capturedתָּפְשׂוּtafsu
seize
To grab or capture someone.
Where else “tafsu” appears- aliveחָיchay
alive
Having life, not dead.
Where else “chay” appears- and brought himיַּקְרִבוּyakrivu
bring near
To bring something, or offer a gift to YHWH.
Where else “yakrivu” appears- 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
Places in this verse
Ai ?
Today: possibly et-Tell or Khirbet el-Maqatir, West Bank
A city east of Bethel; its exact site is not certain.
Israel was defeated there because of Achan's sin (Josh 7:2-5), and later God gave them the victory (Josh 8:1).
The context
22And these came out from the city to meet them, so that they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them until no survivor or fugitive was left to them.
23 · This verse (above)
24And it came about, when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they had pursued them, and all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were finished, that all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.