What Does 1 Chronicles 5:16 Mean?
And they settled in Gilead, in Bashan, and in her daughters, and in all the pastures of Sharon, at their outgoings.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.THE KEY
The Hebrew names their borders as “outgoings,” revealing that dwelling includes a place’s full reach to its edge.
THE MEANING
Your dwelling has a full geography: settled places, surrounding towns, open ground, and the edges where that land reaches outward. Belonging takes in the whole extent of a place, not only its center.
THE ROOT
תּוֹצְאוֹתָם
totsa’otam
GROWS FROM
יצא
To go out, emerge, or come forth.
The word rendered “borders” carries the sense of a place’s outgoings, where its land reaches outward. The verse maps habitation by its full extent, including the places where it ends.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or come forth.
יָצָא
This is the root verb behind the verse’s image of a territory’s outgoings.
motsa: An outlet, source, or place of going forth.
מוֹצָא
It echoes the idea that a place is known by where it opens outward.
וַיֵּשְׁבוּ
wayyeshvu
GROWS FROM
ישב
To sit, remain, settle, or dwell.
The verse pairs settled presence with the land’s outgoings: dwelling is both rooted presence and the full extent that presence occupies. The English “dwelt” holds this sense of remaining in a place.
ALSO GROWS
yashav: To sit, remain, or dwell.
יָשַׁב
It is the root verb used for their settled habitation.
moshav: A dwelling or settlement.
מוֹשָׁב
It carries the same root from the act of dwelling into the place where people settle.
yoshev: An inhabitant, one who dwells.
יוֹשֵׁב
It names the person through the same root of settled presence.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling is named by the full territory it occupies, from settled places to its appointed limits.
The cords fall to me in sweet places; indeed, my inheritance is beautiful.And he made from one blood every nation of humankind to settle upon all the face of the earth, marking out their fitted seasons and setting the boundary stones of their dwelling.Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you for a holding, even the land of Canaan with its borders.THE THREAD
Lean your weight on the LORD and do good. Pitch your tent in the land and graze on steadiness.“Dwell” here comes from the same root, ישב (yashav), meaning to settle or remain. The verse pairs dwelling in the land with being fed, opening this passage’s territory as a place of lived and sustained presence.
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