Joshua 5:4
Old Testament • 16 words with Strong's data
"And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהוֹשׁוּעַ
Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ
Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader
מוּל
mûwl
to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
זָכָר
zâkâr
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
מִלְחָמָה
milchâmâh
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
מִדְבָּר
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
Key Terms in This Verse
מוּל mûwl
to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
Study H4135 →זָכָר zâkâr
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
Study H2145 →מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
Study H4421 →מִדְבָּר midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Study H4057 →דֶּרֶךְ derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Study H1870 →Cross References
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, a...
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