Joshua 7:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the devoted thing from among you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קֻ֚ם קַדֵּ֣שׁ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ הִתְקַדְּשׁ֣וּ לְמָחָ֑ר כִּ֣י כֹה֩ אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל חֵ֤רֶם בְּקִרְבְּךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֣א תוּכַ֗ל לָקוּם֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אֹיְבֶ֔יךָ עַד־הֲסִירְכֶ֥ם הַחֵ֖רֶם מִֽקִּרְבְּכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Qum qaddesh 'eth-the-people, and-'amarta hithqaddeshu for-tomorrow. For thus 'amar YHWH 'Elohei Yisrael: Ḥerem in-midst-your, Yisrael; not tukhal to-stand before 'oyeveikha until-removing-your the-ḥerem from-midst-your.

Grammar Details

• *Qum*: imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - arise
• *qaddesh*: imperative, 2nd person masculine singular, Piel - sanctify
• *'amarta*: perfect, 2nd person masculine singular with waw-consecutive - say
• *hithqaddeshu*: imperative, 2nd person masculine plural, Hithpael - sanctify yourselves
• *'amar*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said
• *'Elohei*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *Ḥerem*: noun, masculine singular - devoted thing/ban
• *tukhal*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - will be able
• *'oyeveikha*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your enemies

Word Meanings

• *qaddesh*: sanctify/consecrate/set apart
• *hithqaddeshu*: sanctify yourselves/consecrate yourselves
• *Ḥerem*: devoted thing/banned thing/thing under divine judgment

Referenced Verses

• Josh 3:5 : 5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders among you.
• Josh 6:18 : 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when ye have devoted it, ye take of the devoted thing; so would ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
• Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
• 2 Chr 28:10 : 10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but] are there not even with you trespasses of your own against Jehovah your God?
• Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
• Joel 2:16-17 : 16 gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
• Zeph 2:1-2 : 1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that hath no shame; 2 before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, before the day of Jehovah's anger come upon you.
• Matt 7:5 : 5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
• 1 Cor 5:1-6 : 1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing, 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, {G5547} {G4863} ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord {G5547} Jesus, 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• 1 Cor 5:11-13 : 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. 12 For what have I to do with judging them {G2532} that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. {G2532} Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
• Exod 19:10-15 : 10 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments, 11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 13 no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments. 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.