Joshua 14:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֗ה הִנֵּה֩ הֶחֱיָ֨ה יְהוָֽ‪[m]‬ה ׀ אוֹתִי֮ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֵּר֒ זֶה֩ אַרְבָּעִ֨ים וְחָמֵ֜שׁ שָׁנָ֗ה מֵ֠אָז דִּבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֶת־הַדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־הָלַ֥ךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וְעַתָּה֙ הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִ֣י הַיּ֔וֹם בֶּן־חָמֵ֥שׁ וּשְׁמוֹנִ֖ים שָׁנָֽה׃

Transliteration

And now hinnēh heḥĕyāh YHWH ʾôtî as that which dibbēr this ʾarbāʿîm and ḥāmēš šānāh from ʾāz dibber YHWH ʾet-haddābār hazzeh to mōšeh when hālak yiśrāʾēl in hammidbbār and now hinnēh ʾānōkî hayyôm ben-ḥāmēš and šᵊmônîm šānāh.

Grammar Details

*wᵊ*: conjunction - and
*ʿattāh*: adverb - now
*hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold
*heḥĕyāh*: verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has kept alive
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*ʾôtî*: direct object marker + 1st singular suffix - me
*ka*: preposition - as
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - when/while
*dibbēr*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he spoke
*zeh*: demonstrative pronoun - this
*ʾarbāʿîm*: number - forty
*ḥāmēš*: number - five
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
*mē*: preposition - from
*ʾāz*: adverb - then/since
*dibber*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he spoke
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ha*: definite article - the
*dābār*: noun, masculine singular - word
*ʾel*: preposition - to
*mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
*hālak*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he walked
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*ba*: preposition + definite article - in the
*midbbār*: noun, masculine singular - wilderness
*ʾānōkî*: pronoun, 1st singular - I
*yôm*: noun, masculine singular - day
*ben*: noun, masculine singular construct - son of/aged
*šᵊmônîm*: number - eighty

Word Meanings

*hinnēh*: behold/look/see
*heḥĕyāh*: kept alive/preserved/sustained
*dibbēr*: spoke/said/promised
*ʾāz*: then/since/from the time when
*dābār*: word/thing/matter
*hālak*: walked/went/journeyed
*midbbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited place
*ben*: son of/aged

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Num 14:30 : 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 14:33-34 : 33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
Josh 11:18 : 18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

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