Joshua 7:9

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִשְׁמְע֣וּ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י וְכֹל֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ וְנָסַ֣בּוּ עָלֵ֔ינוּ וְהִכְרִ֥יתוּ אֶת־שְׁמֵ֖נוּ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וּמַֽה־תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה לְשִׁמְךָ֥ הַגָּדֽוֹל׃

Transliteration

And weyishme'u the-Kena'ani and-all yoshvei the-land, and wenasabbu upon-us, and wehikhritu 'eth-name-our from-the-land. And-what-ta'aseh for-name-your the-great?

Grammar Details

• *weyishme'u*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural - will hear
• *Kena'ani*: proper noun, gentilic with definite article - the Canaanite
• *yoshvei*: participle, masculine plural construct, Qal - inhabitants of
• *wenasabbu*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural, Niphal - will surround
• *wehikhritu*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural, Hiphil - will cut off
• *ta'aseh*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - will you do

Word Meanings

• *wenasabbu*: will surround/encircle/gather against
• *wehikhritu*: will cut off/exterminate/destroy

Referenced Verses

• Exod 32:12 : 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
• Ps 83:4 : 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
• Ps 106:6-8 : 6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
• Ps 124:2-3 : 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 36:22-23 : 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
• Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
• John 12:28 : 28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
• Num 14:13 : 13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
• Deut 9:28 : 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.