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Numbers 34:9

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continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.

KJV

And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar–enan: this shall be your north border.

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This verse in Numbers 34

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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).

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 Awakening1 voice

And the border shall go on to Ziphron,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Hazar-enan--("village of fountains"); but the places are unknown. "An imaginary line from mount Cassius, on the coast along the northern base of Lebanon to the entering into the Bekaa (Valley of Lebanon) at the Kamosa Hermel," must be regarded as the frontier that is meant [VAN DE VELDE].

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

You shall turn yourselves toward the eastern border from Chatzar Einan to Shefam.
Targum · Onkelos Numbers 34:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

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.

  • וְיָצָ֤אand it will go out

    veyatza'H3318 →1067 times

  • הַגְּבֻל֙the border

    hagevulH1366 →240 times

  • זִפְרֹ֔נָהZiphron towards

    zifronahH2202 →

  • וְהָי֥וּand they will be

    vehayuH1961 →3559 times

  • תוֹצְאֹתָ֖יוextremities its

    totzotavH8444 →23 times

  • חֲצַ֣רHazar

    chatzarH2704 →6 times

  • עֵינָ֑ןEnan

    ʾeinanH2704 →6 times

  • זֶֽה־this

    zeh-H2088 →1180 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לָכֶ֖םof you

    lakhem

  • גְּב֥וּלborder of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • צָפֽוֹן׃[the] north

    tzafonH6828 →153 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

1 stop

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

    Ezekiel 47:17

    So the border will run from the Sea to Hazar-enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the territory of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 48:1

      “Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus…

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 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).

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