Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
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Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
But the sons of Manasseh were not able to possess these cities, for the Canaanite was determined to dwell in this land.
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Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.
But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out `the inhabitants of' those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Yet the children of Manasseh coulde not destroy those cities, but the Canaanites dwelled still in that land.
Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.
And the sons of Manasseh have not been able to occupy these cities, and the Canaanite is desirous to dwell in this land,
And the sons of Manasseh have not been able to occupy these cities, and the Canaanite is desirous to dwell in this land,
Yet the tribe of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, for the Canaanites continued to live in this land.
But the sons of Manasseh were not able to possess these cities, for the Canaanite was determined to dwell in this land.
But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess [the inhabitants of] those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Yet the children of Manasseh could not expel the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
But the descendants of Manasseh could not take possession of these towns because the Canaanites were determined to go on occupying the land.
But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וַיּ֨וֹאֶל֙ to be willing H2974 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַיּ֨וֹאֶל֙ to be willing H2974 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 13 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְלֹ֤א יָכְלוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה לְהוֹרִ֖ישׁ אֶת הֶֽעָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַיּ֨וֹאֶל֙ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בָּאָ֥רֶץ הַזֹּֽאת
Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί οὐ δύναμαι ὁ υἱός μανασσή ἐκὀλεθρεύω ὁ πόλις οὗτος καί ἄρχω ὁ χαναναῖος καταοἰκέω ἐν ὁ γῆ οὗτος
And the sons of Manasse were not able to destroy these cities; and the Chananite began to dwell in that land.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וְלָא יָכִילוּ בְּנֵי מְנַשֶׁה לְתָרָכָא יַת קִרְוַיָא הָאִלֵין וּשְׁרֵי כְנַעֲנָאָה לְמִתַּב בְּאַרְעָא הָדָא:
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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.
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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâʼal (“to be willing”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 17:12 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.
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
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
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.