What Does Joshua 19:29 Mean?
And then the border turns to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the border turns to Hosah; and its goings out are at the sea, from the border to Achzib.
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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 then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:THE KEY
The boundary is defined not only by where it runs, but by where it issues out at the sea.
THE MEANING
You meet a portion of land made precise by its boundary: it bends past named places and reaches the sea. Its turns and outgoings show how the edge itself gives the place a definite shape.
THE ROOT
תֹצְאֹתָיו
totsa'otav
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
To go out, emerge, or issue forth.
“goings out” in this verse is totsa'otav. English makes “outgoings” sound like a label for a boundary endpoint; the Hebrew word keeps the motion of יצא (yatsa, to go out) inside it. The border is described by where it issues toward the sea, using the same root that can describe a river going out from Eden.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or depart.
יָצָא
This verb carries the movement preserved in the border’s “outgoings.”
motsa: An exit, outlet, or point of going forth.
מוֹצָא
This branch names a place of emergence, echoing the boundary’s endpoint at the sea.
THE PATTERN
A place becomes definite through the lines and endpoints that mark its bounds.
When the One Above allotted the nations their inheritance, when he split apart the sons of Adam, he stationed the borders of the peoples by the count of the children of Israel.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
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was split and became four heads.Joshua’s “outgoings” and Genesis’s “went out” both carry יצא (yatsa, to go out or issue forth). Here the land’s boundary issues toward the sea; there a river issues from Eden, so the same Hebrew motion marks an edge in one verse and a source in the other.
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