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Joshua 21:42

in Joshua 21

Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.

KJV

These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.

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This verse in Joshua 21

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
These cities were everyone with their suburbs round about them,.... Which reached to the space of two thousand cubits on every side; and such a space was assigned to everyone of the above cities for their cattle, to keep them in and lay up provision for them: thus were all their cities; six of them cities of refuge, and forty two for the priests and Levites to dwell in, and for the commodious use of their herds and flocks.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

After this verse, the Septuagint introduces a passage (in part a repetition from Jos 19:49-50), recording the grant of a special inheritance to Joshua, and also that he buried at Timnath-serah the flint-knives with which he had circumcised (Jos 5:2 note) the people after the passage of Jordan. The latter statement, which has the authority of the Septuagint only, is a Jewish legend of early date.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙they were

    tihyeinahH1961 →3559 times

  • הֶעָרִ֣יםthe cities

    hearimH5892 →1090 times

  • הָאֵ֔לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • עִ֣ירa city

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • עִ֔ירa city

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • וּמִגְרָשֶׁ֖יהָand pasture lands its

    umigrasheihaH4054 →119 times

  • סְבִיבֹתֶ֑יהָaround it

    sevivoteihaH5439 →336 times

  • כֵּ֖ןthus

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • לְכָל־for all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הֶעָרִ֥יםthe cities

    hearimH5892 →1090 times

  • הָאֵֽלֶּה׃ ס<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 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.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 21 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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