What Does 1 Chronicles 6:73 Mean?

And Ramoth with her pasturelands, and Anem with her pasturelands.

1 Chronicles 6:73 · SDV

Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.

Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.

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King James Version

And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:

THE KEY

The open land around each city is part of the gift, not leftover space.

THE MEANING

This verse names Ramoth (⁨רָמֹת⁩, rāmōṯ, “heights”) and Anem with the open land around each. The margin belongs to the place as surely as its center, giving a dwelling room beyond its walls.

THE ROOT

מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ

migrāšêhā

GROWS FROM

גרש

g-r-sh

Drive out, expel.

“pasturelands” in this verse is migrāšêhā. English “suburbs” can suggest a separate built-up district, while ⁨מִגְרָשׁ⁩ (migrāš) means the open common land around a town. The same root family includes ⁨גָּרַשׁ⁩ (gāraš), “drive out”; here the land beyond the city is named as part of its provision, not left as an unnamed margin.

ALSO GROWS

gāraš: Drive out, expel.

גָּרַשׁ

This verbal form makes the root’s outward movement audible beneath the word for the surrounding land.

migrāš: Open common land around a town.

מִגְרָשׁ

This is the land named here: the city’s allotment includes the open tract around it.

רָמֹת

rāmōṯ

GROWS FROM

רום

r-w-m

Be high, rise, be elevated.

Ramoth carries the sense of “heights,” so the verse names elevated ground together with the open land around it. The place’s name and its surrounding tract make the allotment more than a point on a map.

ALSO GROWS

rām: High, exalted.

רָם

This adjective shares the root and carries the same sense of elevation within Ramoth’s name.

rûm: Rise, be high.

רוּם

This verbal form shows the root’s basic movement upward, held in the name Ramoth.

THE PATTERN

A dwelling set apart for sacred service includes the open ground around it as part of its provision.

Command the children of Israel to give the Levites cities to settle in from the inheritance of their holding, and you shall also give the Levites pasturelands for the cities round about them.

Numbers 35:2 · SDVThe cities and their surrounding land are named together as the Levites’ provision.

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.

Joshua 21:2 · SDVThe surrounding land is included with the cities and serves the life sustained there.

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.

Ezekiel 45:2 · SDVEven the sanctuary’s allotted place includes a measured open margin around it.

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.

Numbers 35:3 · SDV

“Suburbs” here translates ⁨מִגְרָשִׁים⁩ (migrāšîm), the same word family as the open land named around Ramoth and Anem. This verse spells out what that margin holds: cattle, goods, and beasts, so the surrounding ground is part of the provision for life around each city.

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