Joshua 4:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁר־הוֹבִישׁ֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֜ם אֶת־מֵ֧י הַיַּרְדֵּ֛ן מִפְּנֵיכֶ֖ם עַֽד־עָבְרְכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂה֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֧ם לְיַם־ס֛וּף אֲשֶׁר־הוֹבִ֥ישׁ מִפָּנֵ֖ינוּ עַד־עָבְרֵֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

Which ʾăšer dried up hôbîš YHWH your God ʾĕlōhêkem ʾet waters of mê the ha-yardên from before you mi-ppənêkem until ʿad your crossing over ʿobrəkem as ka-ʾăšer did ʿāśāh YHWH your God ʾĕlōhêkem to sea of lə-yam sûp which ʾăšer he dried up hôbîš from before us mi-ppānênû until ʿad our crossing over ʿobrēnû

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*hôbîš*: perfect 3rd masculine singular hiphil - dried up/made dry
*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
*ʾĕlōhêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your God
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*mê*: masculine plural construct - waters of
*ha-yardên*: definite article + proper noun - the Jordan
*mi-ppənêkem*: preposition + plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - from before you
*ʿad*: preposition - until
*ʿobrəkem*: infinitive construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your crossing over
*ka-ʾăšer*: preposition + relative pronoun - as/just as
*ʿāśāh*: perfect 3rd masculine singular - did/made
*lə-yam*: preposition + masculine singular construct - to sea of
*sûp*: proper noun - Reed/Red
*mi-ppānênû*: preposition + plural noun + 1st person common plural suffix - from before us
*ʿobrēnû*: infinitive construct + 1st person common plural suffix - our crossing over

Word Meanings

*yābēš*: dry up/make dry/wither
*māyim*: water/waters/fluid
*pānîm*: face/presence/before
*ʿābar*: cross over/pass through/traverse
*ʿāśāh*: do/make/act
*yām*: sea/large body of water
*sûp*: reed/end/Red Sea

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 14:21 : 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Isa 63:12-14 : 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? 14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
Neh 9:11 : 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Ps 77:16-19 : 16 The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled. 17 The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook. 19 Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.
Ps 78:13 : 13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
Isa 43:16 : 16 Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Josh 4:22
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22Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Josh 3:13-17
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13And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.
14And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people;
15and when they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,)
16that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
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Josh 2:10
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10For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Josh 4:17-18
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17Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of the Jordan.
18And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their place, and went over all its banks, as aforetime.
Josh 5:1
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1And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Deut 11:4-5
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4and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Jehovah hath destroyed them unto this day;
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Josh 4:7
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Josh 4:24
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Josh 3:11
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Exod 14:21-22
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21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
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Josh 4:10-13
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10For the priests that bare the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
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12And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half - tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
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Neh 9:11
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11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Josh 4:1
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Exod 14:16
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Heb 11:29
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Josh 22:25
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Deut 11:31
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Ps 66:6
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Josh 23:3
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Deut 31:3
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Josh 3:8
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Josh 4:5
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Deut 1:30-31
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30Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
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Num 32:21
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Deut 2:29
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Josh 24:17
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Exod 15:19
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