Joshua 9:4
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

Young's Literal Translation
and they work, even they, with subtilty, and go, and feign to be ambassadors, and take old sacks for their asses, and wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up,

King James Bible
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

Hebrew
acted deceptively
וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּ (way·ya·‘ă·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

and set out
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ (way·yê·lə·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

as envoys,
וַיִּצְטַיָּ֑רוּ (way·yiṣ·ṭay·yā·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6737: To make an errand, betake oneself

carrying
וַיִּקְח֞וּ (way·yiq·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

on their donkeys
לַחֲמ֣וֹרֵיהֶ֔ם (la·ḥă·mō·w·rê·hem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2543: A male ass

worn-out
בָּלִים֙ (bā·lîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 1087: Worn out

sacks
שַׂקִּ֤ים (śaq·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8242: A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag

and old
בָּלִ֔ים (bā·lîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 1087: Worn out

wineskins,
וְנֹאד֥וֹת (wə·nō·ḏō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4997: A skin bottle, skin

cracked
וּמְבֻקָּעִ֖ים (ū·mə·ḇuq·qā·‘îm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 1234: To cleave, to rend, break, rip, open

and mended.
וּמְצֹרָרִֽים׃ (ū·mə·ṣō·rā·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 6887: To bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or cramped

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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