Joshua 9:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּ גַם־הֵ֙מָּה֙ בְּעָרְמָ֔ה וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ וַיִּצְטַיָּ֑רוּ וַיִּקְח֞וּ שַׂקִּ֤ים בָּלִים֙ לַחֲמ֣וֹרֵיהֶ֔ם וְנֹאד֥וֹת יַ֙יִן֙ בָּלִ֔ים וּמְבֻקָּעִ֖ים וּמְצֹרָרִֽים

Transliteration

And-they-yaʿăśû also-they in-ʿormâ and-they-yēlḵû and-they-yiṣṭayyārû and-they-yiqqəḥû śaqqîm bālîm for-ḥămôrê-them and-nōʾḏôṯ yayin bālîm and-məḇuqqāʿîm and-məṣōrārîm

Grammar Details

*yaʿăśû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they acted/did
*ʿormâ*: feminine singular noun - craftiness/cunning/deception
*yēlḵû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they went
*yiṣṭayyārû*: Hitpael imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they disguised themselves as envoys
*yiqqəḥû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they took
*śaqqîm*: masculine plural - sacks/bags
*bālîm*: masculine plural adjective - worn out/old
*ḥămôrê*: masculine plural construct - donkeys of
*nōʾḏôṯ*: masculine plural - skins/bottles
*yayin*: masculine singular - wine
*məḇuqqāʿîm*: Pual participle masculine plural - torn/split
*məṣōrārîm*: Pual participle masculine plural - bound up/mended

Word Meanings

*ʿormâ*: craftiness/cunning/shrewdness/deception
*yiṣṭayyārû*: they disguised themselves/presented themselves as ambassadors
*bālîm*: worn out/old/tattered
*məḇuqqāʿîm*: torn/split/cracked
*məṣōrārîm*: patched/mended/bound up

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Mark 2:22 : 22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
Luke 5:37-38 : 37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. 38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Luke 16:8 : 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Gen 34:13 : 13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
1 Kgs 20:31-33 : 31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life. 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. 33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Matt 9:17 : 17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Matt 10:16 : 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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