Joshua 5:6

Old Testament • 29 words with Strong's data

"For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey."

Word-by-Word Analysis

For the

בֵּן

bên

H1121

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...

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of

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Yisrâʼêl

H3478

Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

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הָלַךְ

hâlak

H1980

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

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אַרְבָּעִים

ʼarbâʻîym

H705

forty

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שָׁנֶה

shâneh

H8141

a year (as a revolution of time)

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in the

מִדְבָּר

midbâr

H4057

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

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עַד

ʻad

H5705

{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}

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all the

עַם

ʻam

H5971

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

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that were

אֱנוֹשׁ

ʼĕnôwsh

H582

a man in general (singly or collectively)

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of

מִלְחָמָה

milchâmâh

H4421

a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)

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which

בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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out of

מִצְרַיִם

Mitsrayim

H4714

Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt

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were

כָּלָה

kâlâh

H3615

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

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פָּנִים

pânîym

H6440

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...

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they

שָׁמַע

shâmaʻ

H8085

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

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not the

קוֹל

qôwl

H6963

a voice or sound

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of the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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unto whom the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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שָׁבַע

shâbaʻ

H7650

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

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that he would not

נָגַד

nâgad

H5046

properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to o...

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them the

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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which the

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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שָׁבַע

shâbaʻ

H7650

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

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unto their

אָב

ʼâb

H1

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

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that he would

נָתַן

nâthan

H5414

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

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us a

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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that

זוּב

zûwb

H2100

to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow

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with

חָלָב

châlâb

H2461

milk (as the richness of kine)

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and

דְּבַשׁ

dᵉbash

H1706

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

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Key Terms in This Verse

floweth H2100

זוּב zûwb

to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow

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obeyed H8085

שָׁמַע shâmaʻ

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

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milk H2461

חָלָב châlâb

milk (as the richness of kine)

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honey H1706

דְּבַשׁ dᵉbash

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

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sware H7650

שָׁבַע shâbaʻ

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

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sware H7650

שָׁבַע shâbaʻ

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

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consumed H3615

כָּלָה kâlâh

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

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walked H1980

הָלַךְ hâlak

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

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forty H705

אַרְבָּעִים ʼarbâʻîym

forty

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till H5705

עַד ʻad

{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}

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Cross References

Numbers 14:23 cross-reference

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Deuteronomy 2:14 cross-reference

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...

Hebrews 3:11 cross-reference

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

Deuteronomy 2:7 cross-reference

For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked noth...

Deuteronomy 1:3 cross-reference

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandm...

Exodus 3:8 cross-reference

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the ...

Deuteronomy 8:4 cross-reference

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

Jeremiah 2:2 cross-reference

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that ...

Ezekiel 20:15 cross-reference

Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

Ezekiel 20:6 cross-reference

In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

Exodus 3:17 cross-reference

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a ...

Joel 3:18 cross-reference

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come fo...

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