Joshua 7:9

World English Bible (2000)

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִשְׁמְע֣וּ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י וְכֹל֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ וְנָסַ֣בּוּ עָלֵ֔ינוּ וְהִכְרִ֥יתוּ אֶת־שְׁמֵ֖נוּ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וּמַֽה־תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה לְשִׁמְךָ֥ הַגָּדֽוֹל׃

Transliteration

And weyishme'u the-Kena'ani and-all yoshvei the-land, and wenasabbu upon-us, and wehikhritu 'eth-name-our from-the-land. And-what-ta'aseh for-name-your the-great?

Grammar Details

• *weyishme'u*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural - will hear
• *Kena'ani*: proper noun, gentilic with definite article - the Canaanite
• *yoshvei*: participle, masculine plural construct, Qal - inhabitants of
• *wenasabbu*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural, Niphal - will surround
• *wehikhritu*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural, Hiphil - will cut off
• *ta'aseh*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - will you do

Word Meanings

• *wenasabbu*: will surround/encircle/gather against
• *wehikhritu*: will cut off/exterminate/destroy

Referenced Verses

• Exod 32:12 : 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
• Ps 83:4 : 4 "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
• Ps 106:6-8 : 6 We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly. 7 Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea. 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
• Ps 124:2-3 : 2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us; 3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 36:22-23 : 22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went. 23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
• Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
• John 12:28 : 28 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
• Num 14:13 : 13 Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
• Deut 9:28 : 28 lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men; 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"