Joshua 19:40
in Joshua 19The seventh lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Dan:
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
KJV
And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
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This verse in Joshua 19
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The seventh lot came out
on Joshua 19:40-46
Dan draws last and is set down on the Philistine edge, between Judah and the sea. Zorah and Eshtaol open the list at verse 41, the towns of Samson's birth at Judges 13:2, of the Spirit's first moving at Judges 13:25 and of his burial at Judges 16:31. Ekron at verse 43 was already written into Judah at 15:45 and remains Philistine all through the books of Samuel.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan,.... Which was the last lot drawn, and which appointed an inheritance to this tribe: according to their families; the number of them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the seventh lot came out for the tribe . . . Dan--It lay on the west of Benjamin and consisted of portions surrendered by Judah and Ephraim. Its boundaries are not stated, as they were easily distinguishable from the relative position of Dan to the three adjoining tribes.
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The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְמַטֵּ֥ה | lemateh | for [the] tribe of | H4294 → | 252 times |
| בְנֵי־ | venei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| דָ֖ן | dan | Dan | H1835 → | 70 times |
| לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם | lemishpechotam | to clans their | H4940 → | 303 times |
| יָצָ֖א | yatza' | it came out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| הַגּוֹרָ֥ל | hagoral | the lot | H1486 → | 78 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִֽי׃ | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
לְמַטֵּ֥הfor [the] tribe of
lematehH4294 →252 times
בְנֵי־[the] descendants of
venei-H1121 →4930 times
דָ֖ןDan
danH1835 →70 times
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑םto clans their
lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times
יָצָ֖אit came out
yatza'H3318 →1067 times
הַגּוֹרָ֥לthe lot
hagoralH1486 →78 times
הַשְּׁבִיעִֽי׃<the> seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.