Joshua 7:6
Old Testament • 16 words with Strong's data
"And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהוֹשׁוּעַ
Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ
Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader
קָרַע
qâraʻ
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
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...
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...
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
עַד
ʻad
{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
עָפָר
ʻâphâr
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
קָרַע qâraʻ
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
Study H7167 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →עַד ʻad
{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}
Study H5705 →Cross References
And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their ...
Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hou...
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and p...
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD ...
And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
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