Joshua 23:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִישׁ־אֶחָ֥ד מִכֶּ֖ם יִרְדָּף־אָ֑לֶף כִּ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֗ם ה֚וּא הַנִּלְחָ֣ם לָכֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר לָכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

ʾîš ʾeḥād from you yirdāp̄ ʾālep̄ because YHWH ʾĕlōhêkem hûʾ the nniləḥām for you as which dibber to you.

Grammar Details

• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man
• *ʾeḥād*: numeral - one
• *yirdāp̄*: qal imperfect 3ms - he will pursue
• *ʾālep̄*: masculine singular noun - thousand
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2mp suffix - your God
• *hûʾ*: 3ms independent pronoun - he
• *nniləḥām*: niphal participle ms with definite article - the one fighting
• *dibber*: piel perfect 3ms - he spoke/promised

Word Meanings

• *ʾîš ʾeḥād*: one man/a single person
• *yirdāp̄*: will pursue/chase/put to flight
• *ʾālep̄*: thousand/a large number
• *nniləḥām*: fighting/battling/warring
• *dibber*: spoke/promised/declared

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:8 : 8 Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.
• Deut 32:30 : 30 How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
• Deut 3:22 : 22 Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.
• Exod 14:14 : 14 The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.
• Ps 35:1 : 1 <Of David.> O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.
• Ps 46:7 : 7 The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
• Deut 20:4 : 4 For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.
• Josh 23:3 : 3 You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
• 1 Sam 14:6 : 6 And Jonathan said to his young servant who had his arms, Come, let us go over to the armies of these men who have no circumcision: it may be that the Lord will give us help, for there is no limit to his power; the Lord is able to give salvation by a great army or by a small band.
• Ps 44:4-5 : 4 You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob. 5 Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.
• Josh 10:42 : 42 And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.
• Judg 15:15 : 15 And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.
• Exod 23:27-33 : 27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you. 28 I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face. 29 I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you. 30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land. 31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you. 32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods. 33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
• 1 Sam 14:12-16 : 12 And the armed men of the force gave Jonathan and his servant their answer, saying, Come up here to us, and we will let you see something. Then Jonathan said to his servant, Come up after me: for the Lord has given them up into the hands of Israel. 13 And Jonathan went up, gripping with his hands and his feet, his servant going up after him; and the Philistines gave way before Jonathan when he made an attack on them, and his servant put them to death after him. 14 And at their first attack, Jonathan and his servant put to the sword about twenty men, all inside the space of half an acre of land. 15 And there was great fear in the tents and in the field and among all the men of the armed force, and the attackers were shaking with fear; even the earth was moved with a great shaking and there was a fear as from God. 16 And the watchmen of Saul, looking out from Geba in the land of Benjamin, saw all the army flowing away and running here and there.
• Judg 7:19-22 : 19 So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken. 20 So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon. 21 Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight. 22 And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.
• 2 Sam 23:8 : 8 These are the names of David's men of war: Ishbaal the Hachmonite, chief of the three; his axe was lifted up against eight hundred put to death at one time.
• Judg 3:31 : 31 And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.