Joshua 2:15
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Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

she let them

1 Samuel 19:12-17 She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped. . . .

Acts 9:25 But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

2 Corinthians 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and so escaped his hands.

for her house

Joshua 6:20 So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was over against him: and they took the city,

Context
The Promise to Rahab
14They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth. 15Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.16And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.…
Cross References
Joshua 2:14
They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.

Joshua 2:16
And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.

1 Samuel 19:12
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.

Lexicon
Then [Rahab] let them down
וַתּוֹרִדֵ֥ם (wat·tō·w·ri·ḏêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

by a rope
בַּחֶ֖בֶל (ba·ḥe·ḇel)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2256: A rope, a measuring line, a district, inheritance, a noose, a company, a throe, ruin

through
בְּעַ֣ד (bə·‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 1157: In up to, over against, at, beside, among, behind, for

the window,
הַֽחַלּ֑וֹן (ha·ḥal·lō·wn)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2474: A window

since
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

the house
בֵיתָהּ֙ (ḇê·ṯāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house

where she
הִ֥יא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

lived
יוֹשָֽׁבֶת׃ (yō·wō·šā·ḇeṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

was built into the wall
בְּקִ֣יר (bə·qîr)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7023: A wall

of the city.
הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה (ha·ḥō·w·māh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2346: A wall of protection


Additional Translations
Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was on the town wall, and she dwelled on the wall.

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

And she let them down by the window;

And she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the city-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house is in the side of the wall, and in the wall she is dwelling;
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