Joshua 19:6
in Joshua 19Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities, along with their villages.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
KJV
And Beth–lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
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This verse in Joshua 19
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen,.... Whether the first is the same with Lebaoth, a city of Judah, Jos 15:32; and with the Bethleptepha of Josephus (b), and the Betholene of Pliny (c), is not certain: in this place secret to have been an idol temple of the Canaanites, dedicated to lions, as in Egypt there was a city called Leontopolis, from whence was the Leontopolitan nome, the inhabitants of which worshipped lions (d); and the Egyptians had temples dedicated to them, as Aelianus (e) relates.
This site's exposition
the second lot came forth
on Joshua 19:1-9
Simeon draws second and receives no territory of its own, only towns cut out of Judah, and verse 9 gives the reason plainly, that Judah's part was too much for them. Genesis 49:7 said of Simeon and Levi that God would divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel, and both sentences come due in this book: Levi takes cities among all the tribes in chapter 21, and Simeon takes towns inside another tribe here. Moses blesses every tribe by name in Deuteronomy 33 and Simeon is the one name absent from that chapter. Ziklag stands at verse 5 and is already listed to Judah at 15:31, and Achish hands it to David at 1 Samuel 27:6.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Beth-lebaoth - The house or city of lionesses. Probably so called from the numbers of those animals which bred there.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבֵ֥ית | uveit | and Beth | H1034 → | |
| לְבָא֖וֹת | levaot | Lebaoth | H1034 → | |
| וְשָֽׁרוּחֶ֑ן | vesharuchen | and Sharuhen | H8287 → | |
| עָרִ֥ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| שְׁלֹשׁ־ | shelosh- | thir- | H7969 → | 432 times |
| עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה | ʾesreh | teen | H6240 → | 338 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
וּבֵ֥יתand Beth
uveitH1034 →
לְבָא֖וֹתLebaoth
levaotH1034 →
וְשָֽׁרוּחֶ֑ןand Sharuhen
vesharuchenH8287 →
עָרִ֥יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
שְׁלֹשׁ־thir-
shelosh-H7969 →432 times
עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen
ʾesrehH6240 →338 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
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 15:32Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.
it leads to
- Numbers 34:11
then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
- Nehemiah 11:29
in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
- Numbers 34:11
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.