What Does 1 Chronicles 5:16 Mean in the King James?
And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew names their borders as “outgoings,” revealing that dwelling includes a place’s full reach to its edge.
THE MEANING
Your dwelling has a full geography: settled places, surrounding towns, open ground, and the edges where that land reaches outward. Belonging takes in the whole extent of a place, not only its center.
THE ROOT
תּוֹצְאוֹתָם
totsa’otam
GROWS FROM
יצא
To go out, emerge, or come forth.
The word rendered “borders” carries the sense of a place’s outgoings, where its land reaches outward. The verse maps habitation by its full extent, including the places where it ends.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or come forth.
יָצָא
This is the root verb behind the verse’s image of a territory’s outgoings.
motsa: An outlet, source, or place of going forth.
מוֹצָא
It echoes the idea that a place is known by where it opens outward.
וַיֵּשְׁבוּ
wayyeshvu
GROWS FROM
ישב
To sit, remain, settle, or dwell.
The verse pairs settled presence with the land’s outgoings: dwelling is both rooted presence and the full extent that presence occupies. The English “dwelt” holds this sense of remaining in a place.
ALSO GROWS
yashav: To sit, remain, or dwell.
יָשַׁב
It is the root verb used for their settled habitation.
moshav: A dwelling or settlement.
מוֹשָׁב
It carries the same root from the act of dwelling into the place where people settle.
yoshev: An inhabitant, one who dwells.
יוֹשֵׁב
It names the person through the same root of settled presence.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling is named by the full territory it occupies, from settled places to its appointed limits.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)THE THREAD
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.“Dwell” here comes from the same root, ישב (yashav), meaning to settle or remain. The verse pairs dwelling in the land with being fed, opening this passage’s territory as a place of lived and sustained presence.
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