Thisזֶהbread of oursלַחְמֵנוּwas hotחָםwhen we took it as provisionהִצְטַיַּדְנוּ אֹתוֹfrom our housesמִבָּתֵּינוּon the dayבְּיוֹםwe set outצֵאתֵנוּto comeלָלֶכֶתto you;אֲלֵיכֶםand now,וְעַתָּהlook,הִנֵּהit is dryיָבֵשׁand has crumbled.וְהָיָה נִקֻּדִים
Joshua 9:12
Study it in the app“This bread of ours was hot when we took it as provision from our houses on the day we set out to come to you; and now, look, it is dry and has crumbled.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 9:12, word by word
- bread of oursלַחְמֵlachme
bread
Food made of kneaded, baked flour: the basis of each day's meal.
Where else “lachme” appears- was hotחָםcham
hot
Hot.
Where else “cham” appears- when we took it as provisionהִצְטַיַּדְנוּhitstayadnu
take provisions
To take food for the journey.
Where else “hitstayadnu” appears- from our housesבָּתֵּיbate
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bate” appears- on the dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- we set outצֵאתֵtsete
set out
To set out somewhere, or go out to war.
Where else “tsete” appears- to comeלֶכֶתlechet
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechet” appears- it is dryיָבֵשׁyavesh
dry up
To lose water or moisture and become parched or withered.
Where else “yavesh” appears- and has crumbledהָיָהhaya
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “haya” appears- and has crumbledנִקֻּדִיםnikudim
crumbled
Bread or cake so dry that it crumbles into bits.
Where else “nikudim” appears
The context
11So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land said to us, ‘Take provision in your hand for the journey and go to meet them, and say to them, “We are your servants; now make a covenant with us.”’
12 · This verse (above)
13And these wineskins that we filled new, look, they have split; and these cloaks of ours and our sandals have worn out from the very great length of the journey.”