Joshua 6:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשִׁבְעָ֣ה כֹהֲנִ֡ים יִשְׂאוּ֩ שִׁבְעָ֨ה שׁוֹפְר֤וֹת הַיּֽוֹבְלִים֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הָאָר֔וֹן וּבַיּוֹם֙ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י תָּסֹ֥בּוּ אֶת־הָעִ֖יר שֶׁ֣בַע פְּעָמִ֑ים וְהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים יִתְקְע֖וּ בַּשּׁוֹפָרֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

And šibʿāh kōhănîm shall yiśʾû šibʿāh šôpĕrôt hayyôbĕlîm before hāʾārôn and on the day haššĕbîʿî tāsōbbû ʾet-hāʿîr šebaʿ pĕʿāmîm and hakkōhănîm shall yitqĕʿû with haššôpārôt.

Grammar Details

• *šibʿāh*: number, feminine - seven
• *kōhănîm*: noun, masculine plural - priests
• *yiśʾû*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they shall carry/bear
• *šôpĕrôt*: noun, masculine plural - trumpets/ram's horns
• *hayyôbĕlîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the jubilee/ram's horns
• *hāʾārôn*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the ark
• *haššĕbîʿî*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the seventh
• *tāsōbbû*: verb, Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you shall go around
• *šebaʿ*: number, feminine - seven
• *pĕʿāmîm*: noun, feminine plural - times
• *hakkōhănîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the priests
• *yitqĕʿû*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they shall blow
• *baššôpārôt*: preposition + noun, masculine plural with definite article - with the trumpets

Word Meanings

• *šôpĕrôt hayyôbĕlîm*: jubilee trumpets/rams' horns/trumpets of rams' horns
• *yiśʾû*: shall carry/bear/lift
• *tāsōbbû*: you shall go around/encircle/march around
• *yitqĕʿû*: they shall blow/sound/blast

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 20:21 : 21 And after discussion with the people, he put in their places those who were to make melody to the Lord, praising him in holy robes, while they went at the head of the army, and saying, May the Lord be praised, for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
• 2 Chr 20:17 : 17 There will be no need for you to take up arms in this fight; put yourselves in position, and keep where you are, and you will see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: have no fear and do not be troubled: go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.
• 2 Chr 20:19 : 19 And the Levites, the children of the Kohathites and the Korahites, got to their feet and gave praise to the Lord, the God of Israel, with a loud voice.
• Job 42:8 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
• Isa 27:13 : 13 And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
• Zech 4:2 : 2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;
• Zech 4:6 : 6 This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.
• Rev 1:4 : 4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;
• Rev 1:20 : 20 The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.
• Rev 5:1 : 1 And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the high seat, a book with writing inside it and on the back, shut with seven stamps of wax.
• Rev 5:6 : 6 And I saw in the middle of the high seat and of the four beasts, and in the middle of the rulers, a Lamb in his place, which seemed as if it had been put to death, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
• Rev 8:2 : 2 And I saw the seven angels who had their place before God; and seven horns were given to them.
• Rev 8:6 : 6 And the seven angels who had the seven horns made ready for sounding them.
• Rev 10:3 : 3 And he gave a loud cry, like the angry voice of a lion: and at his cry the voices of the seven thunders were sounding.
• Rev 15:1 : 1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and strange; seven angels having the seven last punishments, for in them the wrath of God is complete.
• Rev 15:7 : 7 And one of the four beasts gave to the seven angels seven gold vessels full of the wrath of God, who is living for ever and ever.
• Rev 16:1 : 1 And a great voice out of the house of God came to my ears, saying to the seven angels, Go, and let that which is in the seven vessels of the wrath of God come down on the earth.
• Gen 2:3 : 3 And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
• Gen 7:2-3 : 2 Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female; 3 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
• Lev 4:6 : 6 And the priest is to put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of it before the Lord seven times, in front of the veil of the holy place.
• Lev 14:16 : 16 And let the priest put his right finger in the oil which is in his left hand, shaking it out with his finger seven times before the Lord;
• Lev 25:8-9 : 8 And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years; 9 Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land.
• Num 10:1-9 : 1 And the Lord said to Moses, 2 Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents. 3 When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting. 4 If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you. 5 When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward. 6 At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward. 7 But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly. 8 The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation. 9 And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you. 10 And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.
• Num 23:1 : 1 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.
• Judg 7:7-8 : 7 And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place. 8 So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.
• Judg 7:15-22 : 15 Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands. 16 Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch. 17 And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same. 18 At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon. 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.
• 1 Kgs 18:43 : 43 And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.
• 2 Kgs 5:10 : 10 And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.
• 2 Chr 13:12 : 12 And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.