So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
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So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
And he made the Box of Yahweh circle the city, circling one time. Then they entered the camp, and they lodged in the camp.
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So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.
So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.
So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
So he caused the ark of Jehovah to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
So he caused the ark of the LORD to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
So the Arke of the Lord compassed the citie, and went about it once: then they returned into the hoaste, and lodged in the campe.
So the ark of the Lord went about the city once a day, and returning into the camp, abode there.
And the ark of Jehovah doth compass the city, going round once, and they come into the camp, and lodge in the camp.
And the Ark of YHWH goes around the city, going around once, and they come into the camp, and lodge in the camp.
So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city one time that day. Then they entered their camp, and they stayed the night in the camp.
And he made the Box of Yahweh circle the city, circling one time. Then they entered the camp, and they lodged in the camp.
And the ark of Jehovah went round the city, encompassing [it] once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
So he caused the LORD’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
So the Ark of the Lord was carried around the city, circling it once. Then they returned to the camp and spent the night there.
So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.
So he caused the ark of the LORD to compass the city, going about it once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַקֵּ֖ף to strike H5362 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַקֵּ֖ף to strike H5362 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.
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.
וַיַּסֵּ֤ב אֲרוֹן יְהוָה֙ אֶת הָעִ֔יר הַקֵּ֖ף פַּ֣עַם אֶחָ֑ת וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וַיָּלִ֖ינוּ בַּֽמַּחֲנֶֽה
So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί περιἔρχομαι ὁ κιβωτός ὁ διαθήκη ὁ θεός ὁ πόλις εὐθέως ἀποἔρχομαι εἰς ὁ παρεμβολή καί κοιμάω ἐκεῖ
And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp, and lodged there.
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 →
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.
וְאַסְחַר אֲרוֹנָא דַייָ יַת קַרְתָּא אַקֵיף זִמְנָא חָדָא וְעָלוּ בְּמַשְׁרִיתָא וּבָתוּ בְמַשְׁרִיתָא:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâqaph (“to strike”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 6:11 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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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.
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).