Go
Articles on

Joshua 9

Jos. 9:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
23
Now therefore ye are cursed
'arar (Hebrew #779)
to execrate
KJV usage: X bitterly curse.
Pronounce: aw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
w, and there shall ζnone of you be freed
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
from being bondmen
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
, and hewers
chatab (Hebrew #2404)
to chop or carve wood
KJV usage: cut down, hew(-er), polish.
Pronounce: khaw-tab'
Origin: a primitive root
x of wood
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
and drawers
sha'ab (Hebrew #7579)
to bale up water
KJV usage: (woman to) draw(-er, water).
Pronounce: sahw-ab'
Origin: a primitive root
of water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
for the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of my God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
.
w
Lv. 27:28‑29• 28Pero ninguna cosa consagrada, que alguno hubiere santificado á Jehová de todo lo que tuviere, de hombres y animales, y de las tierras de su posesión, no se venderá, ni se redimirá: todo lo consagrado será cosa santísima á Jehová.
 29Cualquier anatema (cosa consagrada) de hombres que se consagrare no será redimido: indefectiblemente ha de ser muerto. (Lv. 27:28‑29)
ζ
not be cut off from you.
x
Jos. 9:21,27• 21Y los príncipes les dijeron: Vivan; mas sean leñadores y aguadores para toda la congregación, como los príncipes les han dicho.
 27Y constituyólos Josué aquel día por leñadores y aguadores para la congregación y para el altar de Jehová, en el lugar que él escogiese: lo que son hasta hoy. (Jos. 9:21,27)

More on:

+
God,
House

Cross References

+
cursed.This may refer to the original curse pronounced against the descendants of Canaan:
both of them seem to have implied nothing else than perpetual slavery.
The Gibeonites were brought, no doubt, under tribute; performed the meanest offices for the Israelites; being in the same condition as the servile class of Hindoos, called the {Chetrees;} had their national importance annihilated, and yet were never permitted to incorporate themselves with the Israelites.See on
Gn. 9:25‑26• 25Y dijo: Maldito sea Canaán; Siervo de siervos será á sus hermanos.
 26Dijo más: Bendito Jehová el Dios de Sem, Y séale Canaán siervo. (Gn. 9:25‑26)
;
Lv. 27:28‑29• 28Pero ninguna cosa consagrada, que alguno hubiere santificado á Jehová de todo lo que tuviere, de hombres y animales, y de las tierras de su posesión, no se venderá, ni se redimirá: todo lo consagrado será cosa santísima á Jehová.
 29Cualquier anatema (cosa consagrada) de hombres que se consagrare no será redimido: indefectiblemente ha de ser muerto. (Lv. 27:28‑29)
none of you be freed.
Heb. not be cut off from you.
hewers.In the East, collecting wood for fuel, and carrying water, are the peculiar employment of females.
The Arab women of Barbary, and the daughters of the Turcomans, are thus employed.
Hence Mr. Harmer concludes, that the bitterness of the doom of the Gibeonites does not seem to have consisted in the labouriousness of the service enjoined them, but its disgracing them from the characteristic employment of men, that of bearing arms, and condemning them and their posterity for ever to the employment of females.
Jos. 9:21,27• 21Y los príncipes les dijeron: Vivan; mas sean leñadores y aguadores para toda la congregación, como los príncipes les han dicho.
 27Y constituyólos Josué aquel día por leñadores y aguadores para la congregación y para el altar de Jehová, en el lugar que él escogiese: lo que son hasta hoy. (Jos. 9:21,27)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
23
And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to bea bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.

JND Translation Notes

+
a
Lit. "there shall not be cut off from you."