Joshuachapter 6
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The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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Joshua 6— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Seven priests, seven trumpets, one silent circuit1
Joshua 6:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Joshua 6:1
Shut and barred. [Lit. closed and closed] Targum translates: ‘Closed with iron gates and reinforced with bars of copper.’
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997
Joshua 6:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The seventh day, the shout, the wall flat12
Joshua 6:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Joshua 6:13
The rearmost. This refers to the tribe of Dan that traveled last and gathered all those who lagged behind.
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Joshua 6:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Joshua 6:15
On the seventh day. This was on the Shabbos. 2 They were permitted to wage war and to kill on Shabbos by the Divine command, that instructed them to lay siege to the city according to the word of God, as told to Yehoshua. See verses 2-5, this chapter.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997
Joshua 6:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Joshua 6:17
And the city shall be consecrated. It shall be sacred, for that day was the holy Shabbos, 3 See Rashi to verse.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997
Joshua 6:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rahab brought out; Jericho left under a curse22
Joshua 6:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Joshua 6:26· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

