Joshua 7:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קֻ֚ם קַדֵּ֣שׁ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ הִתְקַדְּשׁ֣וּ לְמָחָ֑ר כִּ֣י כֹה֩ אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל חֵ֤רֶם בְּקִרְבְּךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֣א תוּכַ֗ל לָקוּם֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אֹיְבֶ֔יךָ עַד־הֲסִירְכֶ֥ם הַחֵ֖רֶם מִֽקִּרְבְּכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Qum qaddesh 'eth-the-people, and-'amarta hithqaddeshu for-tomorrow. For thus 'amar YHWH 'Elohei Yisrael: Ḥerem in-midst-your, Yisrael; not tukhal to-stand before 'oyeveikha until-removing-your the-ḥerem from-midst-your.

Grammar Details

• *Qum*: imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - arise
• *qaddesh*: imperative, 2nd person masculine singular, Piel - sanctify
• *'amarta*: perfect, 2nd person masculine singular with waw-consecutive - say
• *hithqaddeshu*: imperative, 2nd person masculine plural, Hithpael - sanctify yourselves
• *'amar*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said
• *'Elohei*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *Ḥerem*: noun, masculine singular - devoted thing/ban
• *tukhal*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - will be able
• *'oyeveikha*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your enemies

Word Meanings

• *qaddesh*: sanctify/consecrate/set apart
• *hithqaddeshu*: sanctify yourselves/consecrate yourselves
• *Ḥerem*: devoted thing/banned thing/thing under divine judgment

Referenced Verses

• Josh 3:5 : 5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
• Josh 6:18 : 18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
• Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
• 2 Chr 28:10 : 10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
• Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
• Joel 2:16-17 : 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 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?
• Zeph 2:1-2 : 1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.
• Matt 7:5 : 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
• 1 Cor 5:1-6 : 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• 1 Cor 5:11-13 : 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
• Exod 19:10-15 : 10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 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: 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.