What Does 1 Chronicles 6:58 Mean?
And Hilen with her pasturelands, and Debir with her pasturelands.
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King James wording
King James Version
And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,THE KEY
The “suburbs” are open ground allotted with each city, so the verse includes the space around a dwelling in its provision.
THE MEANING
The verse holds each city and its surrounding open land together as one place of dwelling. The margin is included in the allotment, with room for life beyond the city’s houses.
THE ROOT
מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ
migrasheha
GROWS FROM
גרש
g-r-sh
To drive out or expel.
“pasturelands” in this verse is migrasheha. מִגְרָשׁ (migrash, open land around a town) names the space allotted around the city. Its link to גָּרַשׁ (garash, to drive out or expel) gives the word an outward edge, while this verse includes that surrounding land in the city’s provision.
ALSO GROWS
garash: To drive out or expel.
גָּרַשׁ
This verb shares the root and gives the open land’s name a sense of space set outside the inhabited center.
migrash: Open land around a town.
מִגְרָשׁ
This is the noun used for the land allotted with Hilen and Debir, showing that the named cities include their surrounding space.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling is apportioned with the open ground needed to sustain life around its center.
The cities shall be theirs to settle in, and the pasturelands shall be for their cattle, for their goods, and for all their beasts.And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to settle in, with their pastures for our cattle.Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, and five hundred in breadth, square all around. And fifty cubits all around for its pasturelands.THE THREAD
The cities shall be theirs to settle in, and the pasturelands shall be for their cattle, for their goods, and for all their beasts.The same word מִגְרָשׁ (migrash, open land around a town) appears here, with its use named: space for cattle, goods, and beasts. That detail opens this brief list by showing the surrounding land as part of what makes dwelling possible.
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