Joshua 14:7
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
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Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Read in context →O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
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tsâphâh · tsaw-faw'
properly, to lean forward, i.e. to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await
Strong's KJV usage: behold, espy, look up (well), wait for, (keep the) watch(-man).
Strong's first: Jeremiah 48:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:19
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O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
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ESPY', verb intransitive [Latin specio.]
1. To see at a distance; to have the first sight of a thing remove. Seamen espy land as they approach it.
2. To see or discover something intended to be hid, or in a degree concealed and not very visible; as, to espy a man in a crowd, or a thief in a wood.
3. To discover unexpectedly.
As one of them opened his sack, he espied his money. Genesis 42:27.
4. To inspect narrowly; to examine and make discoveries.
Moses sent me to espy out the land, and I brought him word again. Joshua 14:7.
ESPY', verb intransitive To look narrowly; to look about; to watch.
Stand by the way and espy Jeremiah 48:19.
[This word is often pronounced spy, which see.]
ESPY', noun A spy; a scout.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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