Study it in the app“Joshua called them and spoke to them, saying, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?”
Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַcalledוַיִּקְרָאthemלָהֶםand spokeוַיְדַבֵּרto them,אֲלֵיהֶםsaying,לֵאמֹר“Whyלָמָּהdid you deceiveרִמִּיתֶםus,אֹתָנוּsaying,לֵאמֹר‘We areאֲנַחְנוּveryמְאֹדfarרְחוֹקִיםfrom you,’מִכֶּםwhen youוְאַתֶּםliveיֹשְׁבִיםamong us?בְּקִרְבֵּנוּ
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” appearsname
To give someone a name.
Where else “yikra” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “yedaber” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsdeceive
To deceive or betray someone.
Where else “rimitem” appearsvery
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appearsfar
To be far, at a great distance from a place or someone.
Where else “rechokim” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshvim” appearsmidst
In the midst of: "among the people".
Where else “kirbe” appears21The chiefs said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the community, just as the chiefs had spoken to them.
22 · This verse (above)
23Now you are cursed, and there shall not be cut off from among you slaves, and cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my Elohim.”
