Numbers 13:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח אֹתָם֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה לָת֖וּר אֶת־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם עֲל֥וּ זֶה֙ בַּנֶּ֔גֶב וַעֲלִיתֶ֖ם אֶת־הָהָֽר׃

Transliteration

wa-yišlaḥ ʾōtām mōšeh lātûr ʾet-ʾereṣ kənāʿan wa-yōʾmer ʾălêhem ʿălû zeh ba-negeb wa-ʿălîtem ʾet-hā-hār

Grammar Details

*wa-yišlaḥ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he sent
*ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
*mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
*lātûr*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to spy out
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
*kənāʿan*: proper noun - Canaan
*wa-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
*ʾălêhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them
*ʿălû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - go up
*zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
*ba-negeb*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in the Negev
*wa-ʿălîtem*: waw consecutive + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and go up
*hā-hār*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the mountain/hill country

Word Meanings

*lātûr*: to spy out/to explore/to search
*negeb*: south/Negev/south country
*hā-hār*: the mountain/the hill country/the highlands

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Referenced Verses

Gen 12:9 : 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Judg 1:9 : 9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.
Judg 1:15 : 15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
Judg 1:19 : 19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Gen 13:1 : 1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Gen 14:10 : 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Num 13:21-22 : 21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. 22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were.(Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Num 13:29 : 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Num 14:40 : 40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
Deut 1:44 : 44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Josh 15:3 : 3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 13:16
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16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
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1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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