Joshua 9:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

*ויאמרו **וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־הַחִוִּ֑י אוּלַ֗י בְּקִרְבִּי֙ אַתָּ֣ה יוֹשֵׁ֔ב וְאֵ֖יךְ *אכרות־**אֶֽכְרָת־לְךָ֥ בְרִֽית

Transliteration

And-he-yōʾmer ʾîš-yiśrāʾēl to-the-ḥiwwî ʾûlay in-qirbî you yôšēḇ and-how ʾeḵrāṯ-to-you bərîṯ

Grammar Details

• *yōʾmer*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he said (textual variant shows plural form *yōʾmərû* - they said)
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular construct - men of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ḥiwwî*: gentilic adjective - Hivite
• *ʾûlay*: adverb - perhaps
• *qirbî*: masculine singular + 1st common singular suffix - my midst
• *yôšēḇ*: Qal participle masculine singular - dwelling
• *ʾeḵrāṯ*: Qal imperfect 1st common singular - I will cut (textual variant notes another form)
• *bərîṯ*: feminine singular - covenant

Word Meanings

• *ʾûlay*: perhaps/maybe/what if
• *qirbî*: my midst/among us
• *yôšēḇ*: dwelling/residing/living
• *ʾeḵrāṯ* *bərîṯ*: make a covenant/cut a treaty

Referenced Verses

• Josh 11:19 : 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.
• Judg 2:2 : 2 and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?
• Gen 10:17 : 17 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
• Gen 34:2 : 2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
• Exod 3:8 : 8 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 Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
• Exod 23:31-33 : 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
• Exod 34:12 : 12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
• Num 33:52 : 52 then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
• Deut 7:2-3 : 2 and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; 3 neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
• Deut 20:16 : 16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;
• Josh 9:1 : 1 And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;