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Joshua 17:8

in Joshua 17

The region of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah itself, on the border of Manasseh, belonged to Ephraim.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

KJV

Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;

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This verse in Joshua 17

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah,.... The whole territory that went by that name, from a city of note in it, next mentioned; all the fields and villages in it belonged to the tribe of Manasseh: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim; and was one of those separate cities they had among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh; though it seems they had only the city, not the territory adjacent to it, and which was named from it.

This site's exposition

was from Asher to Michmethah

on Joshua 17:7-11

The line between the two sons of Joseph is drawn so that each tribe holds towns inside the other, Ephraim keeping cities within Manasseh at 16:9 and Manasseh keeping six towns inside Issachar and Asher here. All six of verse 11 have later history in the text: Taanach and Megiddo are where the kings of Canaan fight Deborah and Barak at Judges 5:19, Endor is where Saul finds the woman with a familiar spirit at 1 Samuel 28:7, and the Philistines fasten Saul's body to the wall of Bethshean at 1 Samuel 31:10. The words rendered three countries at the close of verse 11 are read by some as a district of high ground and by others as a third part of that region, and the Hebrew leaves the question open.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah--The southern boundary is here traced from the east. Asher (now Yasir), the starting point, was a town fifteen Roman miles east of Shechem, and anciently a place of importance.

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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.

  • לִמְנַשֶּׁ֕הto Manasseh

    limnashehH4519 →146 times

  • הָיְתָ֖הit belonged

    hayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • תַּפּ֑וּחַTappuah

    tapuachH8599 →6 times

  • וְתַפּ֛וּחַand Tappuah

    vetapuachH8599 →6 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • גְּב֥וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֖הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • לִבְנֵ֥י[belonged] to [the] descendants of

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אֶפְרָֽיִם׃Ephraim

    ʾefrayimH669 →180 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 15:34

    Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 12:17

      the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 15:53

      Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,

  • Through

    Joshua 12:17

    the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 4:10

      Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

    • Joshua 15:34

      Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

  • Through

    Joshua 16:8

    From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Sea. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Ephraim,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 17:8–9

      The region of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah itself, on the border of Manasseh, belonged to Ephraim.

    • Joshua 16:3–6

      Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

    • Joshua 19:28

      It went on to Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon.

    • Numbers 34:6

      Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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