Judges 2:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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נ֖וּן

Nûwn

H5126

“Nun”

Noun, Proper

Appears 30× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 33:11

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5125

TWOT: None

Nun = "fish" or " posterity" - father of Joshua the successor of Moses

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 →

10: words
9: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נ֖וּן Nun H5126 occurs in 30 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
7 nouns
2 adjectives

Verb forms

וַיָּ֛מָת Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

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

בִּן son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 11 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 Judges 2:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 24:29–30 It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Judges 2:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּ֛מָת יְהוֹשֻׁ֥עַ בִּן נ֖וּן עֶ֣בֶד יְהוָ֑ה בֶּן מֵאָ֥ה וָעֶ֖שֶׂר שָׁנִֽים

Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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Greek LXX Judges 2:8 Septuagint · lemma form

καί τελευτάω ἰησοῦς υἱός ναυη δοῦλος κύριος υἱός ἑκατόν δέκα ἔτος

And Joshua the son of Naue, the servant of the Lord, died, one hundred and ten years old.

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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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּמִית יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בַּר נוּן עַבְדָא דַייָ בַּר מְאָה וַעֲשַׂר שְׁנִין:

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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 Judges 2:8 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

Jdg 2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.

Ver. 8. Being a hundred and ten years old.] Which was also good Joseph’s age when he died.

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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 8. Joshua - died] See the notes on Judg 24:29; Judg 24:30.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(8) The servant of the Lord.—Deu_34:5 (Moses); Psalms 18 (David); 2Ti_2:24 (ministers in general), &c.

An hundred and ten years old.—The same age as Joseph (Gen_1:26). Moses attained the age of 120 (Deu_34:7), Jacob, of 130 (Gen_47:9), Isaac, of 180 (Gen_35:28).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

8. the servant of the Lord] Though not limited to Moses, this title is most frequently given to him, Deu_34:5, Jos_1:1, and often in the Dtc. parts of Joshua. It is now transferred, with the leadership, to Moses’ successor. For Joshua’s age at his death cf. Gen_50:26.

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 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died,

being an hundred and ten years old. See Gill on Jos 24:29.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The servant of the Lord - This is a title especially given to Moses Deu 34:5; Jos 1:1. In later books, the phrase “the servant of God” is used 1Ch 6:49; Neh 10:29; Dan 9:11; Rev 15:3. It is applied to Joshua only here and in Jos 24:29. It is spoken of David (Ps. 18, title), and generally of the prophets; and, like the analogous phrase, “man of God,” is transferred by Paul to the ministers of Christ under the New Testament 2Ti 2:24; Jam 1:1.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

A hundred and ten years old. Caleb was eighty-five years old, he tells us, (Jos_14:10) when he went to take possession of Hebron, forty-five years after the spies had searched Canaan from Kadesh-Barnea, and consequently some time in the seventh year of the entrance into Canaan. Joshua was probably within a year or two his contemporary.

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

Lesson kit

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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nûwn (“Nun”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Nun” (Nûwn) shape what this verse is saying?
Exodus 33:11 shares the word «Nun» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וַיָּ֛מָת» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.