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Joshua 17:6

in Joshua 17

because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

KJV

Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.

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This verse in Joshua 17

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons,.... Which occasioned such a number of portions; the daughters of Zelophehad are meant, who descended from Manasseh: and the rest of Manasseh, some had the land of Gilead; that is, those besides the six families before expressed, namely, the two families of the Machirites and Gileadites, Num 26:29.

This site's exposition

had no sons but only daughters

on Joshua 17:3-6

Numbers 27:1-11 heard this case before Moses and Numbers 36 refined the ruling, and verse 4 settles it by name a generation later. How the ten shares of verse 5 are counted is disputed, Albert Barnes reckoning five from Gilead's male line and five for the daughters.

This site's exposition

the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh

Verse 6 gives the reason for the ten shares, since the daughters counted as heirs alongside the sons. Gill takes the rest who held Gilead to be the families of Machir and Gilead, whom Numbers 26:29 names. Moses had given Gilead to Machir's clan at Numbers 32:40.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Machir--his descendants. the father of Gilead--Though he had a son of that name (Nu 26:29; 27:1), yet, as is evident from the use of the Hebrew article, reference is made, not to the person, but the province of Gilead. "Father" here means lord or possessor of Gilead.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • כִּ֚יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בְּנ֣וֹת[the] daughters of

    benotH1323 →588 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֔הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • נָחֲל֥וּthey inherited

    nachaluH5157 →59 times

  • נַחֲלָ֖הan inheritance

    nachalahH5159 →222 times

  • בְּת֣וֹךְin among

    betokhH8432 →418 times

  • בָּנָ֑יוsons his

    banavH1121 →4930 times

  • וְאֶ֙רֶץ֙and [the] land of

    veeretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַגִּלְעָ֔ד<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568 →134 times

  • הָיְתָ֥הit belonged

    hayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • לִבְנֵֽי־to [the] descendants of

    livnei-H1121 →4930 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֖הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • הַנּֽוֹתָרִֽים׃who remained

    hanotarimH3498 →106 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and The Berean Standard Bible, Joshua 17, with the verses cited in the note.

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