Go
Articles on

Joshua 2

Josh. 2:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
9
And she said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto the men
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
, I know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
that the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
hath given
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
you the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and that your terror
'eymah (Hebrew #367)
from the same as 366; fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
KJV usage: dread, fear, horror, idol, terrible, terror.
Pronounce: ay-maw'
Origin: or (shortened) remah {ay-maw'}
v is fallen
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: 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 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
upon us, and that all the inhabitants
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
of the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
θfaint
muwg (Hebrew #4127)
to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
KJV usage: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft.
Pronounce: moog
Origin: a primitive root
because
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
of you.
v
Gen. 35:5• 5And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. (Gen. 35:5)
;
Ex. 15:15‑16• 15Then the princes of Edom were amazed;{HR}The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them;{HR}All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.{HR}
 16Fear and dread fall upon them;{HR}By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone;{HR}Till thy people pass over, Jehovah,{HR}Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.{HR} (Ex. 15:15‑16)
;
Ex. 23:27• 27I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee. (Ex. 23:27)
;
Deut. 2:25• 25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. (Deut. 2:25)
;
Deut. 11:25• 25No man shall be able to stand before you: the fear of you and the dread of you will Jehovah your God lay upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. (Deut. 11:25)
θ
melt.
1 Sam. 14:16• 16And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another. (1 Sam. 14:16)
;
2 Sam. 17:10• 10and even the valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt; for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men. (2 Sam. 17:10)
.

More on:

+
Man

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
I know.
Ex. 18:11• 11Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily he was above them. (Ex. 18:11)
;
2 Kings 5:15• 15And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came and stood before him; and he said, Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; and now, I pray thee, take a present of thy servant. (2 Kings 5:15)
;
Job 19:25• 25And I know my Redeemer liveth,{HR}And later he shall stand up on the earth; (Job 19:25)
;
Eccl. 8:12• 12Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days,{HR}Yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, (Eccl. 8:12)
;
Heb. 11:1‑2• 1Now faith is substance of [things] hoped for, demonstration of things not seen.
 2For in [virtue of] this the elders were witnessed of. (Heb. 11:1‑2)
that the Lord.
Gen. 13:14‑17• 14And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
 15for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever.
 16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
 17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I will give it unto thee. (Gen. 13:14‑17)
;
Gen. 15:18‑21• 18On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates,
 19the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
 20and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
 21and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen. 15:18‑21)
;
Ex. 3:6‑8• 6And he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.
 7And Jehovah said, Seeing I have seen the affliction of my people that [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
 8and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and large land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. (Ex. 3:6‑8)
;
Deut. 32:8• 8When the Most High (Elion) divided to the nations their inheritance,{HR}When he separated the sons of Adam,{HR}He set the bounds of the people{HR}According to the number of the children of Israel. (Deut. 32:8)
;
Psa. 115:16• 16The heavens [are] heavens for Jehovah,{HR}And the earth he gave to the sons of man. (Psa. 115:16)
;
Jer. 27:5• 5I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemeth meet unto me. (Jer. 27:5)
;
Matt. 20:15• 15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good? (Matt. 20:15)
your terror.
Gen. 35:5• 5And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. (Gen. 35:5)
;
Ex. 15:15‑16• 15Then the princes of Edom were amazed;{HR}The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them;{HR}All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.{HR}
 16Fear and dread fall upon them;{HR}By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone;{HR}Till thy people pass over, Jehovah,{HR}Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.{HR} (Ex. 15:15‑16)
;
Ex. 23:27• 27I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee. (Ex. 23:27)
;
Deut. 2:25• 25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. (Deut. 2:25)
;
Deut. 11:25• 25No man shall be able to stand before you: the fear of you and the dread of you will Jehovah your God lay upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. (Deut. 11:25)
;
Deut. 28:10• 10And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall be afraid of thee. (Deut. 28:10)
;
Judg. 7:14• 14And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. (Judg. 7:14)
;
1 Sam. 14:15• 15And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people. and among all the people; the garrison, and the ravagers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked; for it was a trembling from God. (1 Sam. 14:15)
;
2 Kings 7:6• 6For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, a noise of a great host; and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. (2 Kings 7:6)
faint.
Heb. melt.
Josh. 2:11• 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. (Josh. 2:11)
;
1 Sam. 14:16• 16And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another. (1 Sam. 14:16)
;
2 Sam. 17:10• 10and even the valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt; for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men. (2 Sam. 17:10)
;
Psa. 112:10• 10A wicked (man) shall see and be vexed;{HR}He shall gnash his teeth and melt away:{HR}The desire of wicked (men) shall perish. (Psa. 112:10)
;
Isa. 19:1• 1The burden of Egypt. (Isa. 19:1)
;
Nah. 2:10• 10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. (Nah. 2:10)
• It was the faith which recognizes that God is with His people, all weak and few as they may be and not yet possessed of their inheritance, wandering on the earth without a country, but beloved of God. (“Joshua 2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
9
and said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you the land, and that the dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land fainte because of you.

JND Translation Notes

+
e
"Melt away," so ver. 24.

W. Kelly Translation

+
9
and said to the men, I know, that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

WK Verse Note

+
(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)