Joshua 9:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 9:13 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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and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And these skins of wine that we filled new, and behold, they have broken open. And these garments of ours and sandals of ours are worn-out from the very great length of the road.”

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
    and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey.”
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey.”
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and these wineskins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also these bottels of wine which we filled, were newe, and lo, they be rent, and these our garments and our shooes are olde, by reason of the exceeding great iourney.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now they are rent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes we have on our feet, by reason of the very long journey are worn out, and almost consumed.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and these `are' the wine-bottles which we filled, new, and lo, they have rent; and these, our garments and our sandals, have become old, from the exceeding greatness of the way.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and these [are] the wine-bottles which we filled, new, and behold, they have split; and these, our garments and our sandals, have become old, from the exceeding greatness of the way.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    These wineskins were new when we filled them, and look, now they are leaking. Our garments and our sandals are worn-out from a very long journey.'”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And these skins of wine that we filled new, and behold, they have broken open. And these garments of ours and sandals of ours are worn-out from the very great length of the road.”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And these flasks of wine which we filled new, behold, they are rent; and these our garments and our sandals are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And these bottles of wine which we filled, were new, and behold, they are rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look at them now—they're split and damaged. These clothes of ours and our sandals are all worn out because the journey took so long.”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent. And these our garments and our shoes are worn by reason of the very long journey.'

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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נֹאד֤וֹת
nôʼd
H4997
“skin bottles of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root of uncertain signification

TWOT: 1270

skin, bottle, skin-bottle
  1. וְאֵ֨לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “and · these” Conjunction + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  2. הַיַּ֨יִן֙ yayin H3196 “the · wine” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  4. מִלֵּ֣אנוּ mâlêʼ H4390 “to fill” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural
  5. חֲדָשִׁ֔ים châdâsh H2319 “new” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  6. וְהִנֵּ֖ה hinnêh H2009 “and · behold” Conjunction + Particle, Demonstrative
  7. הִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ bâqaʻ H1234 “to split” Verb, Hithpael, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  8. וְאֵ֤לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “and · these” Conjunction + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  9. שַׂלְמוֹתֵ֨ינוּ֙ salmâh H8008 “garments · our” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Plural
  10. וּנְעָלֵ֔ינוּ naʻal H5275 “and · sandals · our” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Plural
  11. בָּל֕וּ bâlâh H1086 “to wear out” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  12. מֵרֹ֥ב rôb H7230 “from · multitude of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  13. הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ derek H1870 “the · way” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  14. מְאֹֽד mᵉʼôd H3966 “exceedingly” Adverb

About this verse

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15
words
14
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is נֹאד֤וֹת skin bottle H4997 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נֹאד֤וֹת skin bottle H4997 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 6 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 2 pronouns
  • 1 adverb
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • מִלֵּ֣אנוּ Piel · Perfect
  • הִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ Hithpael · Perfect
  • בָּל֕וּ Qal · Perfect

Repetition

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

  • וְאֵ֨לֶּה these H428 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 26 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.

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 9:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֵ֨לֶּה נֹאד֤וֹת הַיַּ֨יִן֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר מִלֵּ֣אנוּ חֲדָשִׁ֔ים וְהִנֵּ֖ה הִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ וְאֵ֤לֶּה שַׂלְמוֹתֵ֨ינוּ֙ וּנְעָלֵ֔ינוּ בָּל֕וּ מֵרֹ֥ב הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ מְאֹֽד

and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 9:13 Septuagint · lemma form

καί οὗτος ὁ ἀσκός ὁ οἶνος ὅς πίμπλημι καινός καί οὗτος ῥήγνυμι καί ὁ ἱμάτιον ἐγώ καί ὁ ὑπόδημα ἐγώ παλαιόω ἀπό ὁ πολύς ὁδός σφόδρα

And these are the skins of wine which we filled when new, and they are torn; and our garments and our shoes are worn out because of the very long journey.

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)
    וְאִלֵין זִיקִין דַחֲמַר דִי מְלֵינָא כַּד חַדְתִּין וְהָא אִתְבְּזָעוּ וְאִלֵין תּוֹתְבָנָא וּמְסָנָנָא בְּלִיאוּ מִסְגֵי אוֹרְחָא לַחְדָא:

    (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.

Commentary

Notes on Joshua 9:13 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

Jos 9:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

Ver. 13. See Jos 9:5-6; Jos 9:9.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new,.... That is, on the day they came out on their journey:

and, behold, they be rent; which were owing to the long use that had been made of them, as they pretended:

and these our garments, and our shoes, are become old by reason of the very long journey: quite worn out through length of time and tedious travels. Isidore of Pelusium (q) thinks these Gibeonites were Cappadocians, of whom he gives a shocking character, and particularly that they were prone to lying and deceit; but his reason for it, that they were of the Philistines, will not hold good.

(q) L. 1. Ep. 281.

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 almost. This is added by way of farther explanation of the Hebrew, "are become old." (Haydock)

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).

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The bottles - Leathern bottles.

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

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 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nôʼd (“skin bottle”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word nôʼd carries the sense “skin bottle.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Joshua 9:4, which shares the word «skin bottle», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “these” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «מִלֵּ֣אנוּ» is a Piel Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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