Joshua 15 · Verse 14

Joshua 15:14

And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Joshua 15:14, King James Version

Joshua 15:14 in other translations

BSBAnd Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
WEBCaleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
ASVAnd Caleb drove out thence the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
YLTAnd Caleb is dispossessing thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, children of Anak,
DARBYAnd thence Caleb dispossessed the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, who were born of Anak.
BBEAnd the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak, were forced out from there by Caleb.
WebsterAnd Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

What does Joshua 15:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. drove thence the three sons of Anak--rather three chiefs of the Anakim race. This exploit is recorded to the honor of Caleb, as the success of it was the reward of his trust in God.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The three sons of Anak - See on Jos 14:15 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 15:13-19

Achsah obtained some land by Caleb's free grant. He gave her a south land. Land indeed, but a south land, dry and apt to be parched. She obtained more, on her request, and he gave the upper and the nether springs. Those who understand it but of one field, watered both with the rain of heaven, and the springs that issued out of the earth, countenance the allusion commonly made to this, when we pray for spiritual and…

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Joshua 15:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֤רֶשׁvai.Yo.reshand he dispossessedH3423
מִשָּׁם֙mi.Shamfrom thereH8033
כָּלֵ֔בka.LevCalebH3612
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
שְׁלוֹשָׁ֖הshe.lo.ShahthreeH7969
בְּנֵ֣יbe.Nei[the] sons ofH1121
הָעֲנָ֑קha.'a.Nak<the> AnakH6061
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
שֵׁשַׁ֤יshe.ShaiSheshaiH8344
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
אֲחִימַן֙'a.chi.ManAhimanH289
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
תַּלְמַ֔יtal.MaiTalmaiH8526
יְלִידֵ֖יye.li.Deithose born ofH3211
הָעֲנָֽק\׃ha.'a.Nak<the> AnakH6061

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Cross references for Joshua 15:14

  • Judges 1:10

    And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

  • Judges 1:20

    And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.

  • Joshua 11:21

    And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.

  • Numbers 13:22-23

    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

  • Joshua 10:36-37

    And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it: And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.

  • Numbers 13:33

    And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
10:36,37; 11:21; Nu 13:22,23; Jud 1:10,20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Joshua 15:13

    And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.

  • Joshua 15:14

    And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

  • Joshua 15:15

    And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath–sepher.

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Joshua 15:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Caleb echó de allí tres hijos de Anac, á Sesai, Aiman, y Talmai, hijos de Anac.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Caleb en déposséda les trois fils d’Anak: Shéshaï, et Akhiman, et Thalmaï, enfants d’Anak.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Kaleb trieb von dannen aus die drei Söhne Enaks, Scheschai und Achiman und Talmai, Kinder Enaks.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Delevitque ex ea Caleb tres filios Enac, Sesai et Ahiman et Tholmai de stirpe Enac.