What Does Joshua 15:31 Mean?
And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James Version
And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,THE KEY
An inheritance becomes tangible when it is named down to its smallest places.
THE MEANING
This list makes the portion concrete: each place has a name and its own place among the others. What is received is not vague or interchangeable; it takes shape in distinct locations.
THE ROOT
מַדְמַנָּה
Madmannāh
GROWS FROM
דמן
Commonly glossed as “dunghill” or “dung heap”; the precise derivation is uncertain.
Madmannah carries a humble, earthy sense among the town names. The list gives even an unadorned place a distinct name and place in the inheritance.
ALSO GROWS
domen: Dung or manure.
דֹּמֶן
This related noun is the lexical link behind the traditional earthy gloss of Madmannah, though the derivation is not certain.
Madmenah: A place name also commonly glossed “dunghill.”
מַדְמֵנָה
Its similar form preserves the same possible place-name association, while leaving the exact derivation open.
THE PATTERN
A received portion becomes visible in named places and bounded ground.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall take hold of by lot, which the LORD commanded to give to the nine branches and to the half branch.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
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.Ziklag returns as a town given to David and attached to Judah’s kings. Its reappearance shows that the names in this list are anchors for lived stories, not filler.
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