What Does 1 Chronicles 6:58 Mean in the King James?

And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,

1 Chronicles 6:58 · KJV

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 “suburbs” are open ground allotted with each city, so the verse includes the space around a dwelling in its provision.

THE MEANING

The verse holds each city and its surrounding open land together as one place of dwelling. The margin is included in the allotment, with room for life beyond the city’s houses.

THE ROOT

מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ

migrasheha

GROWS FROM

גרש

g-r-sh

To drive out or expel.

“suburbs” in this verse is migrasheha. ⁨מִגְרָשׁ⁩ (migrash, open land around a town) names the space allotted around the city. Its link to ⁨גָּרַשׁ⁩ (garash, to drive out or expel) gives the word an outward edge, while this verse includes that surrounding land in the city’s provision.

ALSO GROWS

garash: To drive out or expel.

גָּרַשׁ

This verb shares the root and gives the open land’s name a sense of space set outside the inhabited center.

migrash: Open land around a town.

מִגְרָשׁ

This is the noun used for the land allotted with Hilen and Debir, showing that the named cities include their surrounding space.

THE PATTERN

A dwelling is apportioned with the open ground needed to sustain life around its center.

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

Numbers 35:3 · KJVThe verse names the surrounding land as part of the provision for life beyond the city’s houses.

And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

Joshua 21:2 · KJVThe cities are given together with land around them for the animals they sustain.

Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.

Ezekiel 45:2 · KJVEven the sanctuary’s allotted space includes a defined margin around its center.

THE THREAD

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

Numbers 35:3 · KJV

The same word ⁨מִגְרָשׁ⁩ (migrash, open land around a town) appears here, with its use named: space for cattle, goods, and beasts. That detail opens this brief list by showing the surrounding land as part of what makes dwelling possible.

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