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Joshua 13:29

in Joshua 13

This is what Moses had given to the clans of the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses gave inheritance unto the half-tribe of Manasseh: and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

KJV

And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.

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This verse in Joshua 13

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh,.... Whether at their request or of himself, there being land enough for them, and the two tribes of Gad and Reuben, is not certain: and this is the possession of the half tribe of Manasseh, by their families; which is after related and described.

This site's exposition

unto the tribe of Gad

on Joshua 13:24-31

Gad inherits Jacob's ground. Mahanaim at verse 26 is where Jacob met the angels of God at Genesis 32:1-2, and Succoth at verse 27 is where he built booths for his cattle at Genesis 33:17. Adam Clarke identifies the Ramath-mizpeh of verse 26 with Ramoth-gilead, which becomes a city of refuge at Joshua 20:8 and the field where Ahab dies in 1 Kings 22. Manasseh receives the threescore towns of Jair, taken and named by Jair at Numbers 32:41, and a later Jair judges Israel at Judges 10:3-4 with thirty sons in thirty cities that were still called Havoth-jair when that verse was written.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The half tribe of Manasseh - When the tribes of Reuben and Gad requested to have their settlement on the east side of Jordan, it does not appear that any part of the tribe of Manasseh requested to be settled in the same place. But as this tribe was numerous, and had much cattle, Moses thought proper to appoint one half of it to remain on the east of Jordan, and the other to go over and settle on the west side of that river.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וַיִּתֵּ֣ןand he gave

    vaiyitenH5414 →2011 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • לַחֲצִ֖יto [the] half of

    lachatziH2677 →125 times

  • שֵׁ֣בֶט[the] tribe of

    shevetH7626 →190 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֑הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • וַיְהִ֗יand it belonged

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • לַחֲצִ֛יto [the] half of

    lachatziH2677 →125 times

  • מַטֵּ֥ה[the] tribe of

    matehH4294 →252 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] descendants of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֖הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחוֹתָֽם׃to clans their

    lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times

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

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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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