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Ezekiel 48:3

in Ezekiel 48

Naphtali will have one portion bordering the territory of Asher from east to west.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naphtali, one portion.

KJV

And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.

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This verse in Ezekiel 48

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Asher--a tribe of which no one of note is mentioned in the Old Testament. In the New Testament one is singled out of it, the prophetess Anna.

This site's exposition

the names of the tribes

on Ezekiel 48:1-7

Seven tribes receive parallel strips, beginning “At the northern frontier” with Dan and ending with Judah, whose portion borders the holy portion. In Joshua the tribes received land by lot within borders shaped by rivers and hills. Here the portions are straight bands around a fixed center.

This site's exposition

Naphtali will have one portion

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that no one of note from Asher appears in the Old Testament, while the New Testament names Anna (Luke 2:36). Naphtali, the next strip south, held the hills of Galilee in Joshua 19:32 to 39. Matthew 4:13 to 16 sets Jesus' ministry in Naphtali's region.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 48, verses 1 onwards) And these are the names of the tribes: starting from the northern borders, near the path of Ethalon that goes to Emath, Atrium, Enon, the boundary of Damascus to the north of Emath, and it will have the eastern boundary, the sea. Dan is one tribe. And from the boundary of Dan to the eastern boundary, Asher is one tribe. And beyond the boundary of Asher to the eastern boundary, Nephthali is one tribe. And beyond the boundary of Nephthali to the eastern boundary, Manasseh is one tribe.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali. Close to the tribe of Asher and his inheritance, in the same direction from east to west, lay the part assigned to the tribe of Naphtali: such Christians who are wrestlers with God in prayer, and against their spiritual enemies, and strive and contend for the doctrines of the Gospel, may be designed.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַ֣ל׀and at

    vealH5921 →5755 times

  • גְּב֣וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • אָשֵׁ֗רAsher

    ʾasherH836 →43 times

  • מִפְּאַ֥תfrom [the] side of

    mipeatH6285 →86 times

  • קָדִ֛ימָהeast -ward

    kadimahH6921 →69 times

  • וְעַד־and to

    vead-H5704 →1261 times

  • פְּאַת־[the] side of

    peat-H6285 →86 times

  • יָ֖מָּהwest -ward

    yamahH3220 →396 times

  • נַפְתָּלִ֥יNaphtali

    naftaliH5321 →51 times

  • אֶחָֽד׃one [portion]

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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