Joshua 10:34

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 10:34 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Joshua and all of Israel with him passed over from Lachish to Eglon, and they camped against it and fought with it.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So Joshua moved on from Lachish to Eglon, and all Israel with him. They laid siege to it and fought against it.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So Joshua moved on from Lachish to Eglon, and all Israel with him. They laid siege to it and fought against it.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, unto Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, unto Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And from Lachish Ioshua departed vnto Eglon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged it, and assaulted it,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and surrounded it,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Joshua passeth over, and all Israel with him, from Lachish to Eglon, and they encamp against it, and fight against it,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Joshua passes over, and all Israel with him, from Lachish to Eglon, and they encamp against it, and fight against it,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Joshua and all Israel passed on from Lachish to Eglon. They camped by it and waged war against it,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Joshua and all of Israel with him passed over from Lachish to Eglon, and they camped against it and fought with it.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Joshua, and all Israel with him, passed from Lachish to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And from Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Joshua and the Israelite army moved on from Lachish to Eglon, surrounding the town and attacking it.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Lachish to Eglon: and they took up their position against it and made an attack on it;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, unto Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it.

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עֶגְלֹ֑נָה
ʻEglôwn
H5700
“Eglon · toward”
Noun, Proper + Suffix, Demonstrative
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5695

TWOT: None

Eglon = "calf-like" - king of Moab who oppressed the children of Israel for 18 years before he was killed by the judge Ehud (noun proper masculine) - a royal city in Canaan that opposed the conquest; located in the low lands of Judah (noun proper locative)
  1. וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר ʻâbar H5674 “and · to pass over” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. יְ֠הוֹשֻׁעַ Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ H3091 “Joshua” Noun, Proper
  3. וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  5. עִמּ֛וֹ ʻim H5973 “with · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. מִלָּכִ֖ישׁ Lâkîysh H3923 “from · Lachish” Preposition + Noun, Proper
  7. וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ chânâh H2583 “and · to encamp” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  8. עָלֶ֔יהָ ʻal H5921 “upon · her” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  9. וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ lâcham H3898 “and · to fight” Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  10. עָלֶֽיהָ ʻal H5921 “upon · her” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular

About this verse

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11
words
10
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עֶגְלֹ֑נָה Eglon H5700 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עֶגְלֹ֑נָה Eglon H5700 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 3 prepositions

Verb forms

  • וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ Niphal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עָלֶ֔יהָ upon H5921 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 19 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Joshua 10:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Joshua 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
  • Joshua 12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
  • Joshua 15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Joshua 10:34 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר יְ֠הוֹשֻׁעַ וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל עִמּ֛וֹ מִלָּכִ֖ישׁ עֶגְלֹ֑נָה וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ עָלֶ֔יהָ וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ עָלֶֽיהָ

Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 10:34 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποἔρχομαι ἰησοῦς καί πᾶς ἰσραήλ μετά αὐτός ἐκ λαχις εἰς οδολλαμ καί περι καταἵζω αὐτός καί πολιορκέω αὐτός

And Joshua and all Israel with him departed from Lachis to Odollam, and he besieged it and took it.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וַעֲבַר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל עִמֵיהּ מִלָכִישׁ לְעֶגְלוֹן וּשְׁרוֹ עֲלָהּ וְאַגִיחוּ קְרָבָא עֲלָהּ:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Joshua 10:34 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Jos 10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:

Ver. 34. On that day.] Venit, vidit, vicit. See Jos 10:28-29.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 34. Eglon] It is likely that this town was not any great distance from Lachish. See Clarke on Jos 10:3.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

34. Eglon] See on Jos_10:3. He now marches eastward from Lachish to Eglon on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza; invests, takes, and destroys it with all its inhabitants.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And they took it on that day,.... The same day they encamped about it and besieged it; the besieged finding they were not able to keep it:

and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day; made an utter devastation of all its inhabitants:

according to all that he had done to Lachish; the last city he took; this having no king as that had not, its king being one of the five that had been hanged, Jos 10:26.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Eglon, a city of Judah, Jos 15:39.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

34. Eglon — See on Jos_10:3.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Lachish ... Eglon

These are the names of cities. (See: How to Translate Names)

struck it with the edge of the sword ... completely destroyed everyone in it

These two phrases have similar meanings. Together they show the completeness of the destruction of Eglon. (See: Doublet)

translationWords

Joshua

Israel

sword

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻEglôwn (“Eglon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Eglon” (ʻEglôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Joshua 10:3 shares the word «Eglon» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “upon” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. The verb «וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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