Joshua 15:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Caleb saith, `He who smiteth Kirjath-Sephar, and hath captured it -- I have given to him Achsah my daughter for a wife.'

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  • Judg 1:6 : 6 And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,
  • Judg 1:12-13 : 12 and Caleb saith, `He who smiteth Kirjath-Sepher -- and hath captured it -- then I have given to him Achsah my daughter for a wife.' 13 And Othniel son of Kenaz, younger brother of Caleb, doth capture it, and he giveth to him Achsah his daughter for a wife.

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  • Judg 1:10-15
    6 verses
    98%

    10and Judah goeth unto the Canaanite who is dwelling in Hebron (and the name of Hebron formerly `is' Kirjath-Arba), and they smite Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

    11And he goeth thence unto the inhabitants of Debir (and the name of Debir formerly `is' Kirjath-Sepher),

    12and Caleb saith, `He who smiteth Kirjath-Sepher -- and hath captured it -- then I have given to him Achsah my daughter for a wife.'

    13And Othniel son of Kenaz, younger brother of Caleb, doth capture it, and he giveth to him Achsah his daughter for a wife.

    14And it cometh to pass in her coming in, that she persuadeth him to ask from her father the field, and she lighteth from off the ass, and Caleb saith to her, `What -- to thee?'

    15And she saith to him, `Give to me a blessing; when the south land thou hast given me -- then thou hast given to me springs of water; and Caleb giveth to her the upper springs and the lower springs.

  • Josh 15:17-19
    3 verses
    91%

    17And Othniel son of Kenaz, brother of Caleb, doth capture it, and he giveth to him Achsah his daughter for a wife.

    18And it cometh to pass, in her coming in, that she persuadeth him to ask from her father a field, and she lighteth from off the ass, and Caleb saith to her, `What -- to thee?'

    19And she saith, `Give to me a blessing; when the land of the south thou hast given me, then thou hast given to me springs of waters;' and he giveth to her the upper springs and the lower springs.

  • Josh 15:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

    13And to Caleb son of Jephunneh hath he given a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah, according to the command of Jehovah to Joshua, `even' the city of Arba, father of Anak -- it `is' Hebron.

    14And Caleb is dispossessing thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, children of Anak,

    15and he goeth up thence unto the inhabitants of Debir; and the name of Debir formerly is Kirjath-Sepher.

  • 1 Chr 2:48-50
    3 verses
    77%

    48The concubine of Caleb, Maachah, bare Sheber and Tirhanah;

    49and she beareth Shaaph father of Madmannah, Sheva father of Machbenah, and father of Gibea; and a daughter of Caleb `is' Achsa.

    50These were sons of Caleb son of Hur, first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim,

  • 1 Chr 2:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18And Caleb son of Hezron hath begotten Azubah, Isshah, and Jerioth; and these `are' her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

    19And Azubah dieth, and Caleb taketh to him Ephrath, and she beareth to him Hur.

  • Josh 14:12-15
    4 verses
    73%

    12`And now, give to me this hill-country, of which Jehovah spake in that day, for thou didst hear in that day, for Anakim `are' there, and cities, great, fenced; if so be Jehovah `is' with me, then I have dispossessed them, as Jehovah hath spoken.'

    13And Joshua blesseth him, and giveth Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance,

    14therefore hath Hebron been to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenezzite for an inheritance unto this day, because that he was fully after Jehovah, God of Israel;

    15and the name of Hebron formerly `is' Kirjath-Arba (he `is' the great man among the Anakim); and the land hath rest from war.

  • Josh 21:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11and they give to them the city of Arba father of Anak (it `is' Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, and its suburbs round about it;

    12and the field of the city and its villages they have given to Caleb son of Jephunneh for his possession.

  • 1 Chr 6:56
    71%

    56and the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

  • 1 Chr 2:46
    71%

    46And Ephah concubine of Caleb bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez.

  • Judg 1:20
    70%

    20And they give to Caleb Hebron, as Moses hath spoken, and he dispossesseth thence the three sons of Anak.

  • 1 Chr 7:15
    68%

    15And Machir took wives for Huppim and for Shuppim, and the name of the one `is' Maachah, and the name of the second Zelophehad, and Zelophehad hath daughters.

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

    38If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

  • Num 13:6
    68%

    6For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.

  • Deut 1:36
    68%

    36save Caleb son of Jephunneh -- he doth see it, and to him I give the land on which he hath trodden, and to his sons, because that he hath been fully after Jehovah.

  • Judg 15:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1And it cometh to pass, after `some' days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, `I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;' and her father hath not permitted him to go in,

    2and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister -- the young one -- better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

  • Josh 14:6
    67%

    6And the sons of Judah come nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenezzite saith unto him, `Thou hast known the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses the man of God, concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-Barnea:

  • 1 Chr 2:42
    67%

    42And sons of Caleb brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his first-born, he `is' father of Ziph; and sons of Mareshah: Abi-Hebron.

  • 1 Sam 18:17
    67%

    17And Saul saith unto David, `Lo, my elder daughter Merab -- her I give to thee for a wife; only, be to me for a son of valour, and fight the battles of Jehovah;' and Saul said, `Let not my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.'

  • Num 36:8
    67%

    8`And every daughter possessing an inheritance, of the tribes of the sons of Israel, is to one of the family of the tribe of her father for a wife, so that the sons of Israel possess each the inheritance of his fathers,

  • Num 14:24
    67%

    24and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me -- I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.

  • Gen 11:29
    66%

    29And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife `is' Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife `is' Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.

  • Judg 14:2-3
    2 verses
    66%

    2and cometh up and declareth to his father, and to his mother, and saith, `A woman I have seen in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; and now, take her for me for a wife.'

    3And his father saith to him -- also his mother, `Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou art going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?' and Samson saith unto his father, `Take her for me, for she is right in mine eyes.'

  • 1 Kgs 9:16
    66%

    16(Pharaoh king of Egypt hath gone up and doth capture Gezer, and doth burn it with fire, and the Canaanite who is dwelling in the city he hath slain, and giveth it `with' presents to his daughter, wife of Solomon.)

  • Num 34:19
    66%

    19`And these `are' the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

  • Deut 22:16
    66%

    16and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;

  • 1 Chr 2:21
    66%

    21And afterwards hath Hezron gone in unto a daughter of Machir father of Gilead, and he hath taken her, and he `is' a son of sixty years, and she beareth to him Segub.

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    66%

    40And the servants of David come in unto Abigail at Carmel, and speak unto her, saying, `David hath sent us unto thee to take thee to him for a wife.'

  • Josh 15:49
    65%

    49and Dannah, and Kirjath-Sannah (it `is' Debir)