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Joshua 8:24

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And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.	And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.	And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both of men and women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And it came to pass, when Israel^H3478 had made an end^H3615 of slaying^H2026 all the inhabitants^H3427 of Ai^H5857 in the field^H7704, in the wilderness^H4057 wherein they chased^H7291 them, and when they were all fallen^H5307 on the edge^H6310 of the sword^H2719, until they were consumed^H8552, that all the Israelites^H3478 returned^H7725 unto Ai^H5857, and smote^H5221 it with the edge^H6310 of the sword^H2719.

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Original Hebrew

וַיְהִי כְּכַלֹּות יִשְׂרָאֵל לַהֲרֹג אֶת־כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵי הָעַי בַּשָּׂדֶה בַּמִּדְבָּר אֲשֶׁר רְדָפוּם בֹּו וַיִּפְּלוּ כֻלָּם לְפִי־חֶרֶב עַד־תֻּמָּם וַיָּשֻׁבוּ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל הָעַי וַיַּכּוּ אֹתָהּ לְפִי־חָרֶב׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יְהִ֣י	va/y.Hi	H1961	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ it was
כְּ/כַלּ֣וֹת	ke./kha.Lot	H3615	HR/Vpc	when/ had finished
יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל	Yis.ra.'El	H3478	HNp	Israel
לַ/הֲרֹג֩	la./ha.Rog	H2026	HR/Vqc	to/ kill
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
כָּל	kol-	H3605	HNcmsc	all
יֹשְׁבֵ֨י	yo.she.Vei	H3427	HVqrmpc	(the) inhabitants of
הָ/עַ֜י	ha./'Ai	H5857	HTd/Np	(the)/ Ai
בַּ/שָּׂדֶ֗ה	ba./sa.Deh	H7704	HRd/Ncmsa	in the/ open country
בַּ/מִּדְבָּר֙	ba./mid.Bar	H4057	HRd/Ncmsa	in the/ wilderness
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	which
רְדָפ֣וּ/ם	re.da.Fu/m	H7291	HVqp3cp/Sp3mp	they had pursued/ them
בּ֔/וֹ	b/o		HR/Sp3ms	in (the)/ it
וַֽ/יִּפְּל֥וּ	va/i.yi.pe.Lu	H5307	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they had fallen
כֻלָּ֛/ם	khu.La/m	H3605	HNcmsc/Sp3mp	all of/ them
לְ/פִי	le./fi-	H6310	HR/Ncmsc	to/ (the) mouth of
חֶ֖רֶב	Che.rev	H2719	HNcfsa	(the) sword
עַד	'ad-	H5704	HR	until
תֻּמָּ֑/ם	tu.Ma/m	H8552	HVqc/Sp3mp	were finished/ they
וַ/יָּשֻׁ֤בוּ	va/i.ya.Shu.vu	H7725	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they returned
כָל	khol-	H3605	HNcmsc	all
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙	Yis.ra.'El	H3478	HNp	Israel
הָ/עַ֔י	ha./'Ai	H5857	HTd/Np	(the)/ Ai
וַ/יַּכּ֥וּ	va/i.ya.Ku	H5221	HC/Vhw3mp	and/ they attacked
אֹתָ֖/הּ	'o.Ta/h	H853	HTo/Sp3fs	(obj.)/ it
לְ/פִי	le./fi-	H6310	HR/Ncmsc	to/ (the) mouth of
חָֽרֶב	Cha.rev	H2719	HNcfsa	(the) sword

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H2026 — הָרַג (hârag, haw-rag'): a primitive root; to smite with deadly intent; destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), [idiom] surely.
• H2719 — חֶרֶב (chereb, kheh'-reb): from חָרַב; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement; axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
• H3427 — יָשַׁב (yâshab, yaw-shab'): a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry; (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, [idiom] fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, [idiom] marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
• H3478 — יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'): from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
• H3615 — כָּלָה (kâlâh, kaw-law'): a primitive root; to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume); accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
• H4057 — מִדְבָּר (midbâr, mid-bawr'): from דָבַר in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs); desert, south, speech, wilderness.
• H5221 — נָכָה (nâkâh, naw-kaw'): a primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively); beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, [idiom] surely, wound.
• H5307 — נָפַל (nâphal, naw-fal'): a primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative); be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for פָּלַל), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be ([idiom] hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, [idiom] surely, throw down.
• H5857 — עַי (ʻAy, ah'ee): or (feminine) עַיָּא; (Nehemiah 11:31), or עַיָּת; (Isaiah 10:28), for עִי; Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine; Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
• H6310 — פֶּה (peh, peh): from פָּאָה; the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to; accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), [idiom] eat, edge, end, entry, [phrase] file, hole, [idiom] in, mind, mouth, part, portion, [idiom] (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, [idiom] spoken, talk, tenor, [idiom] to, [phrase] two-edged, wish, word.
• H7291 — רָדַף (râdaph, raw-daf'): a primitive root; to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by); chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
• H7704 — שָׂדֶה (sâdeh, saw-deh'): or שָׂדַי; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat); country, field, ground, land, soil, [idiom] wild.
• H7725 — שׁוּב (shûwb, shoob): a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again; ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) [idiom] again, (cause to) answer ([phrase] again), [idiom] in any case (wise), [idiom] at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, [idiom] certainly, come again (back), [idiom] consider, [phrase] continually, convert, deliver (again), [phrase] deny, draw back, fetch home again, [idiom] fro, get (oneself) (back) again, [idiom] give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, [idiom] needs, be past, [idiom] pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, [phrase] say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, [idiom] surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
• H8552 — תָּמַם (tâmam, taw-mam'): a primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive; accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, [idiom] be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.
• H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).
• H5704 — עַד (ʻad, ad): properly, the same as עַד (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with); against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-) to, [phrase] how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, ([phrase] as) yet.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• returned unto Ai — Numbers 21:24, Joshua 8:16, Joshua 10:30-41, Joshua 11:10-14

Reciprocal references (6): Genesis 14:10, Deuteronomy 7:2, Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:17, Joshua 10:20, John 11:54

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: CONQUESTS
• Nave’s: MASSACRE, STRATEGY, WAR

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