Bluey now has her own set of stamps, coins, figurines, and all manner of collectables. I don’t remember Lassie being so feted, and only now is that famous sled-dog, Togo, who braved dangerous icefields to enable a medical rescue, starting to be recognized. But long before them all was a man called Caleb, whose Hebrew name means dog. No doubt around the crib his father was thinking of those qualities of faithfulness and loyalty.

If that man could have coins and stamps and figurines to celebrate his life and remember his feats and exploits, the following would be among them: A figurine of him with Joshua remonstrating with the other ten men who were enlisted to spy out the Promised Land, that it was indeed possible to march forward, because God would help them. Perhaps we would see Caleb pointing to heaven to show where he knew the power lay.

We would have a series of stamps depicting him stepping forward in battle against three giants, the sons of Anak. And another showing the fair city he won, Hebron, which would later be nominated as a city of refuge. And another marking the occasion of the birth of his daughter, Aksah – meaning anklet, and denoting strength and stability – to whom he would grant an inheritance. And to top it off, we would have a gold commemorative coin of him at eighty-five, bearing this testimony: “I have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly”. And all of them would be worth collecting.