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Joshua 9:5
“And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
נַעַלnaʻal · nah'-al
H5275 · Hebrew
H5275 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, a sandal tongue; by extension a sandal or slipper (sometimes as a symbol of occupancy, a refusal to marry, or of something valueless)
- Derivation
- or (feminine) נַעֲלָה; from H5274 (נָעַל);
- KJV renderings
- dryshod, (pair of) shoe((-latchet), -s).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- נְעָל֨וֹת — common noun, feminine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 22 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 14:23Exodus 3:5Exodus 12:11Deuteronomy 25:9Deuteronomy 25:10
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נַעַל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.