What Does Joshua 15:35 Mean?
Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
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
Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,THE KEY
This list turns inheritance into geography: belonging is marked out in particular places with particular names.
THE MEANING
The verse names Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah as part of Judah’s allotted ground. It presents belonging as something concrete, shaped by actual places rather than left as an abstraction.
THE ROOT
יַרְמוּת
Yarmuth
GROWS FROM
רוּם
rum
To rise, be high, or be lifted up.
Jarmuth is commonly glossed “height” and is linked to the root for rising or being high. The place-name carries a sense of elevation within this otherwise spare list, while the same root also describes lifting something up.
ALSO GROWS
ram: High or elevated.
רָם
This branch makes the height carried by Jarmuth’s name more visible.
herim: Raised or lifted something.
הֵרִים
The root’s sense moves from being high to the act of lifting up.
terumah: A contribution or offering set apart by lifting it up.
תְּרוּמָה
This branch preserves the root’s image of elevation in an act of setting something forward.
THE PATTERN
What is given becomes inhabitable through particular places and boundaries.
Rise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth, for I will give it to you.This is the holding of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families.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
This is the holding of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families.The preceding verse names the larger frame: Judah’s inheritance. This verse gives that frame particular shape by naming four towns within it.
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