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Numbers 34:7

in Numbers 34

Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;

KJV

And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:

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This verse in Numbers 34

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The northern border. On the “Mount Hor,” compare Num 20:22 note. Here the name denotes the whole western crest of Mount Lebanon, 80 miles in length, commencing east of Zidon, and terminating with the point immediately above the entrance of Hamath (compare Num 13:21). The extreme point in the northern border of the land was the city of Zedad (Sadad), about 30 miles east of the entrance of Hamath. Hence, the border turned back southwestward to Ziphron (Zifran), about 40 miles northeast of Damascus.

This site's exposition

ye shall even have the great sea for a border

on Numbers 34:6-9

Each border is fixed to something that does not move, the great sea on the west and a mountain and a mountain pass on the north. The mount Hor of verse 7 is a different mountain from the mount Hor where Aaron died in chapter 20, which stood south by Edom; Barnes reads this one as the western crest of Lebanon, and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown take the doubled Hebrew name as a high double mountain in the same range. Zedad and Hazar-enan are named again in Ezekiel 47:15-17, where the same northern line is drawn for a division of the land still to come.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Hor - Not that Hor where Aaron died, which was southward, and bordering upon Edom, but another mountain, and, as it is conceived, the mountain of Libanus, which is elsewhere mentioned as the northern border of the land, and which, in regard of divers parts, or by divers people, is called by divers names, and here Hor, which signifies a mountain, by way of eminency.
And this shall be your northern border,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Hebrew words, however, Hor-ha-Hor, properly signify "the mountain of the mountain," or "the high double mountain," which, from the situation, can mean nothing else than the mountain Amana (So 4:8), a member of the great Lebanon range (Jos 13:5).

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְזֶֽה־and this

    vezeh-H2088 →1180 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לָכֶ֖םof you

    lakhem

  • גְּב֣וּלborder of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • צָפ֑וֹן[the] north

    tzafonH6828 →153 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַיָּם֙the sea

    haiyamH3220 →396 times

  • הַגָּדֹ֔ל<the> great

    hagadolH1419 →526 times

  • תְּתָא֥וּyou will mark out

    tetauH8376 →

  • לָכֶ֖םfor <the> yourselves

    lakhem

  • הֹ֥רHor

    horH2023 →12 times

  • הָהָֽר׃the mountain

    haharH2022 →546 times

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

Related verses

6 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

    Numbers 34:3

    Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,

    it leads to

    • Genesis 14:3

      The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

    • Ezekiel 47:13

      This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.

    • Joshua 15:1–12

      Now the allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah extended to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at the extreme southern boundary:

    • Ezekiel 47:18–23

      On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be…

    • Ezekiel 47:8

      And he said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah. When it empties into the Sea, the water there becomes fresh.

  • Through

    Numbers 33:37

    They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 21:4

      Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

  • Through

    Numbers 34:6

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

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:47

      Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.

    • Joshua 9:1

      Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites,…

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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