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Joshua 15:22

in Joshua 15

Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

KJV

And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

This verse in Joshua 15

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Kinah,.... Of this city we read of nowhere else: and Dimonah; the second city is thought to be the same with Dibon, Neh 11:25; and Jerom (b) observes, that a place elsewhere was indifferently called in his time Dibon and Dimon; and Adadah; the last of these cities is nowhere met with. (b) Comment. in Esaiam, c. 15. 9.

This site's exposition

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah

on Joshua 15:20-32

The cities are grouped by region rather than listed at random, and this run covers the dry south toward Edom. A list like this is a legal record of title, which is why later books can argue from it, and why a town's tribe can be settled by looking it up. Beersheba stands in the middle of it at verse 28, already old by Genesis 21:31.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And when this was done there was a more equal dividend (either in quantity or quality) of the remainder among the seven tribes. And this, probably, was intended in that general rule which was given concerning this partition ( Num. xxxiii.

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The words behind it

3 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.

  • וְקִינָ֥הand Kinah

    vekinahH7016

  • וְדִֽימוֹנָ֖הand Dimonah

    vedimonahH1776

  • וְעַדְעָדָֽה׃and Adadah

    veadadahH5735

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.