Joshua 3:16
Old Testament • 25 words with Strong's data
"That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
מַעַל
maʻal
properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
גַּל
gal
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
עִיר
ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
אָדָם
ʼâdâm
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
English grammatical function word ('zaretan'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent...
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
יָם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif...
עֲרָבָה
ʻărâbâh
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
מֶלַח
melach
properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)
יָם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif...
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
יְמָנִי
yᵉmânîy
right (i.e. at the right hand)
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
יְרִיחוֹ
Yᵉrîychôw
Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('zaretan'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are re...
Study GRAM →יָצָא yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Study H3318 →אָדָם ʼâdâm
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
Study H120 →גַּל gal
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
Study H1530 →מֶלַח melach
properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)
Study H4417 →עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
Study H6160 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →עָבַר ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Study H5674 →Cross References
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall...
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
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