And the king
melek (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
of Ai
`Ay (ah'ee)
Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine -- Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
he hanged
talah (taw-law')
to suspend (especially to gibbet) -- hang (up).
on a tree
`ets (ates)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks) -- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
until eventide
`eth (ayth)
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
`ereb (eh'-reb)
dusk -- + day, even(-ing, tide), night.
and as soon as the sun
shemesh (sheh'-mesh)
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement -- + east side(-ward), sun (rising), + west(-ward), window.
was down
bow' (bo)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Joshua
Yhowshuwa` (yeh-ho-shoo'-ah)
Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader -- Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua.
commanded
tsavah (tsaw-vaw')
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin -- appoint, (for-)bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
that they should take
yarad (yaw-rad')
to descend; causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
his carcase
nbelah (neb-ay-law')
a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol -- (dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself.
down
yarad (yaw-rad')
to descend; causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
from the tree
`ets (ates)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks) -- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
and cast
shalak (shaw-lak)
to throw out, down or away -- adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
it at the entering
pethach (peh'-thakh)
an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way -- door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place.
of the gate
sha`ar (shah'-ar)
an opening, i.e. door or gate -- city, door, gate, port (-er).
of the city
`iyr (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
and raise
quwm (koom)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
thereon a great
gadowl (gaw-dole')
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
heap
gal (gal)
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves) -- billow, heap, spring, wave.
of stones
'eben (eh'-ben)
a stone -- + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
that remaineth unto this day
yowm (yome)
a day (as the warm hours),
