King James Version
Joshua 4:1 in the King James Version says “And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,”
Joshua 4:1 · KJV
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“were clean”
H8552to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“And it came to pass when all the people”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“passed over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“that the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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