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So JoshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַburnedוַיִּשְׂרֹףAiאֶת הָעָיand made itוַיְשִׂימֶהָa heap of ruinsתֵּלforever,עוֹלָםa desolation,שְׁמָמָהtoעַדthisהַזֶּהday.הַיּוֹם
Joshua 8:28
Study it in the app“So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins forever, a desolation, to this day.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 8:28, 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).
Where else “yehoshua” appears- burnedיִּשְׂרֹףyisrof
burn
Burn; bake in the fire.
Where else “yisrof” appears- and made itיְשִׂימֶyesime
make
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “yesime” appears- a heap of ruinsתֵּלtel
mound, ruin heap
Mound: a hill formed by the ruins of a destroyed city.
Where else “tel” appears- foreverעוֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appears- a desolationשְׁמָמָהshemama
desolation
Desolation: a land left empty and uncultivated; also horror.
Where else “shemama” appears- dayיּוֹםyom
today
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” 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
27Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel plundered for themselves, according to the word of YHWH that he had commanded Joshua.
28 · This verse (above)
29And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua gave command, and they took down his corpse from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which is there to this day.