Joshua 2:13

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַחֲיִתֶ֞ם אֶת־אָבִ֣י וְאֶת־אִמִּ֗י וְאֶת־אַחַי֙ וְאֶת־*אחותי **אַחְיוֹתַ֔י וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר לָהֶ֑ם וְהִצַּלְתֶּ֥ם אֶת־נַפְשֹׁתֵ֖ינוּ מִמָּֽוֶת

Transliteration

And-wəhaḥăyîṯem ʾet-my-father and-ʾet-my-mother and-ʾet-my-brothers and-ʾet-my-sisters and-ʾēṯ all-that to-them and-wəhiṣṣaltem ʾet-our-nap̄šōṯênû from-mimmāweṯ

Grammar Details

• *wəhaḥăyîṯem*: waw consecutive + hiphil perfect 2nd masculine plural - and you will preserve alive
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʾēṯ*: direct object marker
• *wəhiṣṣaltem*: waw consecutive + hiphil perfect 2nd masculine plural - and you will deliver
• *nap̄šōṯênû*: noun feminine plural construct + 1st common plural suffix - our lives/souls
• *mimmāweṯ*: preposition + noun masculine singular - from death

Word Meanings

• *wəhaḥăyîṯem*: preserve alive/let live/spare
• *nap̄šōṯênû*: lives/souls/selves

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  that ye wyl let my father lyue, and my mother, my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue, and delyuer oure soules from death.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And that yee will saue aliue my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that yee will deliuer our soules from death.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And that ye shall saue alyue both my father and my mother, my brethren and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that ye shall delyuer our soules from death.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?

• World English Bible (2000)

  and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”