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But the menוְהָאֲנָשִׁיםwhoאֲשֶׁרhad gone upעָלוּwith himעִמּוֹsaid,אָמְרוּ“We are notלֹאableנוּכַלto go upלַעֲלוֹתagainstאֶלthe people,הָעָםforכִּיtheyהוּאare strongerחָזָקthan we.”מִמֶּנּוּ
Numbers 13:31
Study it in the app“But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 13:31, word by word
- But the menאֲנָשִׁיםanashim
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appears- had gone upעָלוּalu
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “alu” appears- saidאָמְרוּamru
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amru” appears- ableנוּכַלnuchal
be able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “nuchal” appears- the peopleעָםam
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appears- are strongerחָזָקchazak
strong
Of great power or intensity: a hand, a wind or a famine no one can withstand.
Where else “chazak” appears
The context
30But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession of it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
31 · This verse (above)
32And they spread a bad report of the land that they had explored among the sons of Israel, saying, “The land that we passed through to explore it is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are men of great size.