What Does Ezekiel 47:20 Mean?
The sunset edge also shall be the great sea from the border, until one comes facing Hamath. This is the sunset edge.
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
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.THE KEY
The western edge is anchored by a sea and closed at a named threshold.
THE MEANING
You see a place given a definite western edge: the great sea marks it, and the line reaches the point facing Hamath. The closing words restate the side and make its limit explicit.
THE ROOT
לְבוֹא
levo
GROWS FROM
בוא
b-w-ʾ
to come, enter
“come” in this verse is levo. לְבוֹא חֲמָת (levo Hamath, entrance of Hamath) names the approach to Hamath as the limit. The root holds movement and place together: the boundary reaches the threshold where entry begins.
ALSO GROWS
bo: to come or enter
בּוֹא
The verse’s endpoint carries the sense of arriving at a place.
mavo: entrance or approach
מָבוֹא
This branch makes clear how the language of coming can also mark a boundary by an entrance.
מִגְּבוּל
miggevul
GROWS FROM
גבל
g-b-l
to border, mark off
The root connects the border with the act of setting a limit. Here the western side has a definite extent, measured between a named border and a named threshold.
ALSO GROWS
gevul: border, boundary, territory
גְּבוּל
This noun names the bounded extent that the verse locates.
gabal: to border or set a boundary
גָּבַל
The verb shows the action within the boundary: marking where one territory ends.
THE PATTERN
A named boundary makes the extent of an inheritance visible.
You shall not move your neighbor's boundary, which the former ones marked out in your holding, which you shall take as your share in the land the LORD your God gives you to take hold of.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.THE THREAD
From Mount Hor you shall draw your border to the entrance of Hamath, and its goings out shall be to Zedad.Numbers names the same entrance of Hamath as a limit, using the same threshold marker. The Hebrew בוא (bo, to come or enter) carries both arrival and entrance, so the endpoint is also a passage into the land.
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