What Does Joshua 19:13 Mean?

And from there it crosses along the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goes out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;

Joshua 19:13 · 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.

This verse in the King James

King James wording

King James Version

And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah;

THE KEY

The boundary is narrated as something that goes out, so even a limit is drawn through movement.

THE MEANING

This verse lets you see a boundary traced across real places, not only as an abstract line. Passing on and going out give the edge a direction; limit and movement sit together.

THE ROOT

וְיָצָא

veyatsa

GROWS FROM

יצא

To go out, come forth, or emerge.

“goeth out” in this verse is veyatsa. The border does not simply stop at a named place; it goes out toward the next one. The Hebrew root also forms words for a departure and an outlet, keeping the boundary connected to passage and emergence.

ALSO GROWS

yetsi’ah: Going out; departure.

יְצִיאָה

This branch makes the verse’s boundary verb part of a wider language of leaving one place and entering another.

motsa: An outlet or place of going out; also a source.

מוֹצָא

An outlet is where something emerges, echoing the border’s movement onward from one named point.

THE PATTERN

Scripture makes a place legible by naming the boundaries and endpoints that shape it.

And the border shall go out to Ziphron, and its goings out shall be at Hazarenan. This shall be your north border.

Numbers 34:9 · SDVThe border is traced as a route with a named endpoint, just as Joshua’s boundary passes through named places.

The sunset edge also shall be the great sea from the border, until one comes facing Hamath. This is the sunset edge.

Ezekiel 47:20 · SDVThe territory becomes legible through its edge and the places that mark where that edge runs.

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.

Acts 17:26 · SDVThe verse names habitation’s bounds as part of how human life is situated across the earth.

THE THREAD

And it came to be at the end of four hundred and thirty years, and on this very bone of the day it came to be, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:41 · SDV

The boundary’s “goeth out” and the people’s “went out” share the root ⁨יצא⁩ (yatsa), “to go out or emerge.” In Exodus, that going out carries a people beyond constriction; here, the same movement traces the edge through its named places.

Read the SDV Bible.

Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.

Get Selah Verse

The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.

Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us