What Does Joshua 19:28 Mean?
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
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 Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;THE KEY
One marker in this boundary list means “broad place,” so spaciousness is named within the very line that defines the territory.
THE MEANING
This verse gives you a geography through named places, reaching from Hebron through Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah to great Zidon. Rehob carries the sense of a broad, open place, so breadth stands within the territory’s defined reach.
THE ROOT
רְחֹב
Reḥōv
GROWS FROM
רחב
To be wide or spacious.
Rehob carries the root רחב (raḥav), “to be wide,” inside a place-name in this boundary list. English gives you a location; the Hebrew name also lets breadth sound within the territory’s defined reach.
ALSO GROWS
raḥav: To be wide or spacious.
רָחַב
This verbal form makes explicit the breadth carried in Rehob’s name.
merḥav: A broad or open place.
מֶרְחָב
This noun shows the same root describing spaciousness as a place one can enter.
reḥov: A broad street or open place.
רְחֹב
This place-word shares the root that gives Rehob its sense of breadth.
THE PATTERN
Belonging becomes inhabitable when its reach is named.
As for the western border, the great sea shall be your border. This shall be your western border.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 the narrow place I call out to the LORD, and the LORD answers me in a wide place.Rehob carries רחב (raḥav), “to be wide”; Psalm 118:5 uses מֶרְחָב (merḥav), “a broad place,” from the same root. The boundary marker’s breadth becomes the spacious place where the speaker finds room.
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