Joshua 22:4

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them: therefore now turn you, and get you to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.

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אֲחֻזַּתְכֶ֔ם

ʼăchuzzâh

H272

“possession · your”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 66× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 17:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from passive participle from H270

TWOT: 64a

possession, property - land - possession by inheritance

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

24: words
18: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

5 verbs
11 nouns
4 prepositions
2 adverbs
2 particles

Verb forms

הֵנִ֨יחַ Hiphil · Perfect
דִּבֶּ֣ר Piel · Perfect
פְּנוּ֩ Qal · Imperative
וּלְכ֨וּ Qal · Imperative
נָתַ֣ן Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וְעַתָּ֗ה now H6258 ×2
יְהוָ֤ה LORD H3068 ×2
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 42 words from the Hebrew and 39 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 24 Hebrew tokens and 38 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

Topical passages linked to Joshua 22:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 32:18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Joshua 13:8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
Deuteronomy 3:20 until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.
Numbers 32:33–42 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.
Deuteronomy 3:1–17 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 12:9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
Joshua 13:15–14:5 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

Joshua 21:43–44 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and they possessed it, and lived therein.

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.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Joshua 22:4 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַתָּ֗ה הֵנִ֨יחַ יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ לַֽאֲחֵיכֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֣ר לָהֶ֑ם וְעַתָּ֡ה פְּנוּ֩ וּלְכ֨וּ לָכֶ֜ם לְאָהֳלֵיכֶ֗ם אֶל אֶ֨רֶץ֙ אֲחֻזַּתְכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתַ֣ן לָכֶ֗ם מֹשֶׁה֙ עֶ֣בֶד יְהוָ֔ה בְּעֵ֖בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּֽן

Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them: therefore now turn you, and get you to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 22:4 Septuagint · lemma form

νῦν δέ καταπαύω κύριος ὁ θεός ἐγώ ὁ ἀδελφός ἐγώ ὅς τρόπος εἶπον αὐτός νῦν οὖν ἀποστρέφω ἀποἔρχομαι εἰς ὁ οἶκος σύ καί εἰς ὁ γῆ ὁ κατάσχεσις σύ ὅς δίδωμι σύ μωυσῆς ἐν ὁ πέραν ὁ ἰορδάνης

And now the Lord our God has given our brethren rest, as he told them: now then return and depart to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the other side Jordan.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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)

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּכְעַן אַנִיחַ יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן לַאֲחוּכוֹן כְּמָא דִי מַלֵיל לְהוֹן וּכְעַן אִתְפְּנִיאוּ וֶאֱזִילוּ לְכוֹן לְקִרְוֵיכוֹן לְאַרְעָא אַחְסַנְתְּכוֹן דִיהַב לְכוֹן מֹשֶׁה עַבְדָא דַייָ בְּעִבְרָא דְיַרְדְנָא:

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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 22:4 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

Jos 22:4. Return ye to your tents — That is, to your settled habitations. Though their affections to their families could not but make them very desirous to return, yet, like good soldiers, they would not move till they had orders from their general. So, though we desire to be at home with Christ ever so much, yet we must stay here till our warfare is accomplished, wait for a due discharge, and not anticipate the time of our removal.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

22:4-6 Joshua’s words recall God’s words to Joshua at the beginning of the conquest (1:1-9). In order to live in the land, Israel needed to be faithful to God by being very careful to obey all the commands and the instructions given to Moses.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

get you unto your tents--that is, home; for their families had been left in fortified towns (Num 32:17).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

4. hath given rest] Comp. ch. Jos_21:44, Jos_23:1.

which Moses] See ch. Jos_13:8.

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

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law,.... The ten commandments, and all other laws, both ceremonial and civil:

which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you; in the name of the Lord, to keep and observe:

to love the Lord your God; of which keeping the commands of God is an evidence, and which is the true principle and motive of hearty, sincere, and cheerful obedience to them:

and to walk in all his ways; which he has prescribed, all his ways of worship, paths of duty, faith, truth, holiness, and righteousness:

and to keep his commandments; whether moral, ceremonial, or judicial: whether of natural and moral obligation, or of positive institution:

and to cleave unto him; and not depart from his ways, worship, word, and ordinances:

and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul: in the most strict and affectionate manner. This advice Joshua thought proper to give them, and inculcate into them, now they were about to leave their brethren, and go on the other side Jordan; where they would be at a distance from the tabernacle, altar, and service of God, and might be under temptation to relinquish it, and set up another form of worship elsewhere.

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

And peace. This is a farther explication of rest, (Haydock) which alone occurs in Hebrew. It may denote a fixed and permanent abode, Deuteronomy iii. 20., and Ruth i. 9.

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

Unto your tents, i.e. to your settled habitations, as appears from Deu 22:8, which are oft called

tents, as Jdg 19:9; 2Sa 17:17; Hos 9:6; Mal 2:12.

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

4. Get you unto your tents — The word tents here, as often elsewhere, (Jdg_7:8; 1Sa_4:10; 1Sa_13:2; 2Sa_18:17,) is used for houses, or homes. Its use probably arose from Israel’s dwelling so long in tents.

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

Given rest. LXX katepause , the word used in Heb_4:8.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Your tents - That is, to your settled habitations. Tho' their affections to their families could not but make them very desirous to return, yet like good soldiers, they would not move 'till they had orders from their general. So, tho' we desire to be at home with Christ ever so much, yet we must stay here till our warfare is accomplished, wait for a due discharge, and not anticipate the time of our removal.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

to walk in all his ways

A person obeying Yahweh is spoken of as if he were walking on Yahweh's ways or roads. AT: "to obey everything he says" (See: Metaphor)

with all your heart and with all your soul

The terms "heart" and "soul" are here used together to refer to the entire person. AT: "with all you think and feel" or "with your entire being" (See: Synecdoche)

translationWords

God

brother

promise

tent

Jordan River

worship

heart

soul

bless

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 24 words (18 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼăchuzzâh (“possession”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “possession” (ʼăchuzzâh) shape what this verse is saying?
Numbers 32:18 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“now” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «הֵנִ֨יחַ» is Hiphil Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 24 Hebrew ↔ 38 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 17 words in this verse.
“now” occurs 2× in this single verse.
18 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 24 words in this verse.