Joshua 15:48
in Joshua 15These were in the hill country:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
KJV
And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir
on Joshua 15:48-62
The hill country and then the wilderness beside the salt sea. Bethlehem is absent from the King James list at verse 59, and the Septuagint carries eleven further towns there including it, which is the largest textual variant in the chapter and is worth naming rather than passing over. Engedi and the City of Salt close the run at verses 62 to 63, in the country where David later hides from Saul.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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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And in the mountains,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Socoh - See a town of this name, Jos 15:35 (note).
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבָהָ֑ר | uvahar | and in the hill country | H2022 → | 546 times |
| שָׁמִ֥יר | shamir | Shamir | H8069 → | |
| וְיַתִּ֖יר | veyatir | and Jattir | H3492 → | |
| וְשׂוֹכֹֽה׃ | vesokhoh | and Socoh | H7755 → |
וּבָהָ֑רand in the hill country
uvaharH2022 →546 times
שָׁמִ֥ירShamir
shamirH8069 →
וְיַתִּ֖ירand Jattir
veyatirH3492 →
וְשׂוֹכֹֽה׃and Socoh
vesokhohH7755 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
2 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Joshua 21:14Jattir, Eshtemoa,
it leads to
- Joshua 15:50
Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
- 1 Samuel 30:27–28
He sent gifts to those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;
- Joshua 15:50
Where this verse is studied
On this page
About Joshua
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.