What Does 1 Chronicles 6:75 Mean?
And Hukok with her pasturelands, and Rehob with her pasturelands.
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.
King James wording
King James Version
And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:THE KEY
The verse counts a town’s surrounding open ground as part of the dwelling itself: belonging includes room around the center.
THE MEANING
A place includes both its center and the open ground around it; the enclosed town alone is not the whole provision. Rehob’s name carries the sense of broadness, while its surrounding lands give that breadth room.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A dwelling is complete once its enclosed center is secured.
THE ROOT
רְחֹב
Reḥov
GROWS FROM
רחב
רחב (r-ḥ-b), raḥav: to grow broad or make spacious.
The name Rehob comes from the language of broadness and spaciousness. Beside the mention of surrounding open lands, the name makes the verse’s sense of a dwelling with room around it especially vivid.
ALSO GROWS
raḥav: Wide, broad, spacious.
רָחָב
This adjective carries the breadth heard in the name Rehob.
hirḥiv: To widen or make spacious.
הִרְחִיב
This form shows the root expressing an enlarging of space, echoing the open ground named around the town.
מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ
migrašeyha
GROWS FROM
גרש
גרש (g-r-š), garash: to drive out or send away; מִגְרָשׁ (migraš) means open land around a town.
“pasturelands” in this verse is migrašeyha. The KJV word “suburbs” can suggest another built-up neighborhood, but מִגְרָשׁ (migraš, open land around a town) refers to the space beyond the town’s built center. The verse names the town together with that surrounding room.
ALSO GROWS
garash: To drive out, expel, or send away.
גָּרַשׁ
This verb gives the root its sense of movement outward from a boundary.
gerushah: A divorced or sent-away woman.
גְּרוּשָׁה
This form preserves the root’s sense of being sent out, illuminating the outward movement associated with the town’s surrounding lands.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling’s provision extends beyond its walls to the ground that sustains life around it.
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.But the field of the pasturelands of their cities shall not be sold, for it is their holding of the ages.And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, by the mouth of the LORD, these cities and their pastures.THE THREAD
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 names the surrounding open land as part of the provision for dwelling in a city. Here, the repeated phrase “with her suburbs” holds the same design in view: the place includes room around its center.
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