Numbers 34:8
in Numbers 34and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
KJV
From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
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This verse in Numbers 34
Commentary
3 notes on this verseFrom Mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath,.... Antiochia, as Jarchi; or rather Epiphania, as Jerom (r); the former being described by Hemath the great, Amo 6:2, this entrance was a narrow pass leading from the land of Canaan to Syria, through the valley which lies between Lebanon and Antilibanus: and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad; the same boundary as here is given in Eze 47:15. (r) Comment. in Ezek. 47. 16.
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 Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מֵהֹ֣ר | mehor | from Hor | H2023 → | 12 times |
| הָהָ֔ר | hahar | the mountain | H2022 → | 546 times |
| תְּתָא֖וּ | tetau | you will mark out | H8376 → | |
| לְבֹ֣א | levo' | Lebo | H935 → | 2568 times |
| חֲמָ֑ת | chamat | Hamath | H2574 → | |
| וְהָי֛וּ | vehayu | and they will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| תּוֹצְאֹ֥ת | totzot | [the] extremities of | H8444 → | 23 times |
| הַגְּבֻ֖ל | hagevul | the border | H1366 → | 240 times |
| צְדָֽדָה׃ | tzedadah | Zedad towards | H6657 → |
מֵהֹ֣רfrom Hor
mehorH2023 →12 times
הָהָ֔רthe mountain
haharH2022 →546 times
תְּתָא֖וּyou will mark out
tetauH8376 →
לְבֹ֣אLebo
levo'H935 →2568 times
חֲמָ֑תHamath
chamatH2574 →
וְהָי֛וּand they will be
vehayuH1961 →3559 times
תּוֹצְאֹ֥ת[the] extremities of
totzotH8444 →23 times
הַגְּבֻ֖לthe border
hagevulH1366 →240 times
צְדָֽדָה׃Zedad towards
tzedadahH6657 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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
2 Kings 14:25This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 8:65
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 3:17
The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
- Matthew 12:39–40
Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
- Joshua 19:13
From there it crossed eastward to Gath-hepher and to Eth-kazin; it extended to Rimmon and curved around toward Neah.
- 1 Kings 8:65
Through
Numbers 13:21So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
it leads to
- Numbers 33:36
They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
- Numbers 20:1
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
- Numbers 27:14
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in…
- Joshua 15:1
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:
- Numbers 33:36
About Numbers

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).
