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Allכָלwho fellהַנֹּפְלִיםthatהַהוּאday,בַּיּוֹםfrom manמֵאִישׁtoוְעַדwoman,אִשָּׁהwereוַיְהִיtwelveשְׁנֵים עָשָׂרthousand,אָלֶףallכֹּלthe menאַנְשֵׁיof Ai.הָעָי
Joshua 8:25
Study it in the app“All who fell that day, from man to woman, were twelve thousand, all the men of Ai.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 8:25, word by word
- who fellנֹּפְלִיםnoflim
fall in battle
To die in battle, killed by the enemy.
Where else “noflim” appears- dayיּוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- from manאִישׁish
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appears- womanאִשָּׁהisha
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appears- wereיְהִיyehi
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yehi” appears- twelveשְׁנֵיםshenem
double
Twice the amount, or two plus ten to say twelve.
Where else “shenem” appears- twelveעָשָׂרasar
-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “asar” appears- thousandאָלֶףalef
thousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “alef” appears- of Aiעָיay
Ai
See it on the mapWhere else “ay” 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
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.
25 · This verse (above)
26Joshua did not draw back his hand that he had stretched out with the javelin until he had devoted to destruction all the inhabitants of Ai.