Joshua 10:12
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
יְהוֹשׁוּעַ
Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ
Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
אֱמֹרִי
ʼĔmôrîy
an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
שֶׁמֶשׁ
shemesh
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
גַּיְא
gayʼ
a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent)
אַיָּלוֹן
ʼAyâlôwn
Ajalon, the name of five places in Palestine
Key Terms in This Verse
עָמַד ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Study H5975 →גַּיְא gayʼ
a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent)
Study H1516 →שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement
Study H8121 →עָמַד ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Study H5975 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →Cross References
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and ...
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD...
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
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