Joshua 3:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֣ךְ ׀ רָח֣וֹק יִהְיֶ֗ה בֵּֽינֵיכֶם֙ *ובינו **וּבֵינָ֔יו כְּאַלְפַּ֥יִם אַמָּ֖ה בַּמִּדָּ֑ה אַֽל־תִּקְרְב֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו לְמַ֤עַן אֲשֶׁר־תֵּֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת־הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֵּֽלְכוּ־בָ֔הּ כִּ֣י לֹ֧א עֲבַרְתֶּ֛ם בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ מִתְּמ֥וֹל שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃

Transliteration

ʾak rāḥôq yihyeh between-you and-between-it about-ʾalpayim ʾammāh in-ha-middāh not-tiqrəbû unto-it ləmaʿan ʾăšer-tēdəʿû ʾet-ha-derek ʾăšer you-shall-tēlkû-in-it because not ʿăbartem in-ha-derek from-təmôl šilšôm

Grammar Details

*ʾak*: adverb/particle - only, surely, nevertheless
*rāḥôq*: adjective, masculine singular - distant, far
*yihyeh*: qal imperfect 3ms - it will be
*ʾalpayim*: numeral, dual - two thousand
*ʾammāh*: noun, feminine singular - cubit
*ha-middāh*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the measure
*tiqrəbû*: qal imperfect 2mp + negative particle - do not come near
*ləmaʿan*: conjunction - in order that
*ʾăšer*: relative particle - which, that
*tēdəʿû*: qal imperfect 2mp - you may know
*ha-derek*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the way
*tēlkû*: qal imperfect 2mp - you shall walk/go
*ʿăbartem*: qal perfect 2mp - you have passed over
*təmôl*: adverb - yesterday
*šilšôm*: adverb - day before yesterday, previously

Word Meanings

*ʾak*: only, surely, nevertheless, however
*rāḥôq*: far, distant, remote
*ləmaʿan*: so that, in order that
*təmôl* *šilšôm*: idiom: previously, in the past, before now

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Referenced Verses

Exod 19:12 : 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
1 Chr 11:2 : 2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
Ps 89:7 : 7 God is greatly to be feared{H8737)} in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence{H8737)} of all them that are about him.
Heb 12:28-29 : 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Gen 31:2 : 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Exod 3:5 : 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Exod 4:10 : 10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

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