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Joshua 9:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 9:25 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 9:25 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/joshua/9/25.

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Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, behold us, in your hand. Do to us as good and as right in your eyes to do.”

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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And now, behold, we are in thy hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And beholde nowe, we are in thine hand: doe as it seemeth good and right in thine eyes to doe vnto vs.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and right unto thee.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and now, lo, we `are' in thy hand, as `it is' good, and as `it is' right in thine eyes to do to us -- do.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and now, behold, we [are] in your hand, as [it is] good, and as [it is] right in your eyes to do to us—do.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now, look, you hold us in your power. Whatever seems good and right for you to do to us, do it.”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, behold us, in your hand. Do to us as good and as right in your eyes to do.”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And now behold, we are in thy hand: as it is good and right in thine eyes to do to us, do.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And now, behold, we are in thy hand: do as it seemeth good and right to thee to do to us,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now we're in your hands. Do to us what you think is right and just.”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And now, behold, we are in thy hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.'

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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וְכַיָּשָׁ֧ר
yâshâr
H3477
“and · like/as the · upright”
Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Preposition + Adjective
Type
Adjective
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3474

TWOT: 930a

straight, upright, correct, right - straight, level - right, pleasing, correct - straightforward, just, upright, fitting, proper - uprightness, righteous, upright - that which is upright (substantive)
  1. וְעַתָּ֖ה ʻattâh H6258 “and · now” Conjunction + Adverb
  2. הִנְנ֣וּ hên H2005 “behold · us” Particle, Interjection + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Plural
  3. בְיָדֶ֑ךָ yâd H3027 “in/at · hand · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. כַּטּ֨וֹב ṭôwb H2896 “like/as the · good” Preposition, Determined + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. בְּעֵינֶ֛יךָ ʻayin H5869 “in/at · eyes · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  8. עֲשֵֽׂה ʻâsâh H6213 “do” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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9
words
7
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 2 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 adverb
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
  • עֲשֵֽׂה Qal · Imperative

Repetition

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

  • לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת to do H6213 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 15 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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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Joshua 9:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
  • Judges 10:15 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, we pray you, this day.
  • Jeremiah 26:14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.
  • Judges 8:15 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?
  • 1 Samuel 3:18 Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.
  • 2 Samuel 24:14 David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.
  • Isaiah 47:6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
  • Jeremiah 38:5 Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.
  • Matthew 11:26 Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

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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 9:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַתָּ֖ה הִנְנ֣וּ בְיָדֶ֑ךָ כַּטּ֨וֹב וְכַיָּשָׁ֧ר בְּעֵינֶ֛יךָ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת לָ֖נוּ עֲשֵֽׂה

Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 9:25 Septuagint · lemma form

καί νῦν ἰδού ἐγώ ὑποχείριος σύ ὡς ἀρέσκω σύ καί ὡς δοκέω σύ ποιέω ἐγώ

And now, behold, we are in your power; do to us as it is pleasing to you, and as it seems good to you.

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)
    וּכְעַן הָא אֲנַחְנָא מְסִירִין בִּידָךְ כְּמָא דְתַקִין וּכְמָא דְכָשַׁר בְּעֵינָךְ לְמֶעְבַּד לָנָא עַבָד:

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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 9:25 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 9:25 And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

Ver. 25. And now, behold, we are in thine hand.] These ambassadors were masters of speech, which they here order very prudently and politically to effect that they came for. An orator, saith Quintilian - so, an ambassador - should be Vir bonus, dicendi peritus, a good man, well able to express himself.

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Jos 9:25. We are in thy hand, &c. — In thy power to use us as thou wilt. We refer ourselves to thee and thy own piety, probity, and faithfulness, to fulfil thy word and oath; if thou wilt destroy thy humble supplicants, we submit. Let us, in like manner, submit to our Lord Jesus, and refer ourselves to him, saying, We are in thy hand, do unto us as it seemeth right unto thee. Only save our souls: give us our lives for a prey, and let us serve thee just as thou wilt!

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 25. We are in thine hand] Entirely in thy power.

As it seemeth good and right unto thee - do.] Whatever justice and mercy dictate to thee to do to us, that perform. They expect justice, because they deceived the Israelites; but they expect mercy also, because they were driven to use this expedient for fear of losing their lives. The appeal to Joshua is full of delicacy and cogent argument.

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

25. we are in thine hand] Compare the words of Abraham to Sarah, “Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee” (Gen_16:6).

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 now, behold, we are in thine hand,.... In thy power, and at thy disposal, and are ready to submit to whatsoever may be enjoined us:

as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do; do what is consistent with the laws of kindness, and with the rules of justice, and particularly with the league made, and oath taken; all which they left with him to consider of, and to do as in his wisdom and goodness he should see fit.

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

Thee. They acknowledge not only that Josue is too strong for them, but also that he has a right to punish them for their deceit. They accept, therefore, of whatever terms he is pleased to allow them. (Calmet)

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

We are in thine hand, i.e. in thy power to use as thou wilt. We refer ourselves to thee and thy own piety and probity, and faithfulness to thy word and oath; if thou wilt destroy thy humble suppliants, we submit.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In thine hand - That is, in thy power to use us as thou wilt. Unto thee - We refer ourselves to thee and thy own piety, and probity, and faithfulness to thy word and oath; if thou wilt destroy thy humble suppliants, we submit. Let us in like manner submit to our Lord Jesus, and refer ourselves to him; saying, We are in thy hand; do unto us as seemeth right unto thee. Only save our souls: give us our lives for a prey; and let us serve thee, just as thou wilt!

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

Lesson kit

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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâshâr (“upright”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “upright” (yâshâr) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Genesis 16:6 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to do” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת» is Qal Infinitive Construct. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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