What Does 1 Chronicles 6:73 Mean in the King James?

And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:

1 Chronicles 6:73 · 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 open land around each city is part of the gift, not leftover space.

THE MEANING

This verse names Ramoth (⁨רָמֹת⁩, rāmōṯ, “heights”) and Anem with the open land around each. The margin belongs to the place as surely as its center, giving a dwelling room beyond its walls.

THE ROOT

מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ

migrāšêhā

GROWS FROM

גרש

g-r-sh

Drive out, expel.

English “suburbs” can suggest a separate built-up district, while ⁨מִגְרָשׁ⁩ (migrāš) means the open common land around a town. The same root family includes ⁨גָּרַשׁ⁩ (gāraš), “drive out”; here the land beyond the city is named as part of its provision, not left as an unnamed margin.

ALSO GROWS

gāraš: Drive out, expel.

גָּרַשׁ

This verbal form makes the root’s outward movement audible beneath the word for the surrounding land.

migrāš: Open common land around a town.

מִגְרָשׁ

This is the land named here: the city’s allotment includes the open tract around it.

רָמֹת

rāmōṯ

GROWS FROM

רום

r-w-m

Be high, rise, be elevated.

Ramoth carries the sense of “heights,” so the verse names elevated ground together with the open land around it. The place’s name and its surrounding tract make the allotment more than a point on a map.

ALSO GROWS

rām: High, exalted.

רָם

This adjective shares the root and carries the same sense of elevation within Ramoth’s name.

rûm: Rise, be high.

רוּם

This verbal form shows the root’s basic movement upward, held in the name Ramoth.

THE PATTERN

A dwelling set apart for sacred service includes the open ground around it as part of its provision.

Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

Numbers 35:2 · KJVThe cities and their surrounding land are named together as the Levites’ provision.

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 surrounding land is included with the cities and serves the life sustained there.

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 place includes a measured open margin around it.

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

“Suburbs” here translates ⁨מִגְרָשִׁים⁩ (migrāšîm), the same word family as the open land named around Ramoth and Anem. This verse spells out what that margin holds: cattle, goods, and beasts, so the surrounding ground is part of the provision for life around each city.

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