Joshua 15:57
in Joshua 15Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah—ten cities, along with their villages.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
KJV
Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
4 notes on this verseCain,.... Cain, or Hakain, "that Cain", we nowhere else read of; whether the name was given it by the old Canaanites, in memory of Cain, the son of Adam, is not certain: Gibeah; there were other places that went by the name of Gibeah; there was a Gibeah in Benjamin, Jdg 20:4, and another in the same tribe called Gibeah of Saul, 1Sa 11:4, to distinguish it from that; but this was in the tribe of Judah. Masius conjectures it is the same with that in 1Sa 23:19 which was near Ziph; and not amiss.
This 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 Awakening1 voice
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 Nineteenth Century1 voice
Timnah - A frontier town of the Philistines; it was in this place that Samson got his wife, see Judges 14:1-15:20.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַקַּ֖יִן | hakayin | <the> Kain | H7014 → | |
| גִּבְעָ֣ה | givah | Gibeah | H1390 → | |
| וְתִמְנָ֑ה | vetimnah | and Timnah | H8553 → | 12 times |
| עָרִ֥ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| עֶ֖שֶׂר | ʾeser | ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
הַקַּ֖יִן<the> Kain
hakayinH7014 →
גִּבְעָ֣הGibeah
givahH1390 →
וְתִמְנָ֑הand Timnah
vetimnahH8553 →12 times
עָרִ֥יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
עֶ֖שֶׂרten
ʾeserH6235 →176 times
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃and villages their
vechatzreihenH2691 →191 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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 15:10The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
it leads to
- Judges 14:1
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 38:12–13
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
- Judges 14:5
Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
- Judges 14:1
Through
Jeremiah 14:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
it leads to
- Jeremiah 17:8
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not…
- Jeremiah 17:8
Through
Genesis 38:12After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
it leads to
- Joshua 15:10
The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
- Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
- 2 Samuel 13:39
And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
- 2 Samuel 13:23–29
Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
- Joshua 15:10
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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.