What Does Deuteronomy 11:30 Mean in the King James?
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
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
Gilgal is more than an address: its name carries the rolling-away of Egypt’s reproach, so the covenant’s map already holds a story of release.
THE MEANING
The verse gives a precise orientation: across the Jordan, toward the sunset, in Canaanite land, opposite Gilgal and beside Moreh. These named landmarks root the covenant’s words in a real landscape, and their names carry meaning alongside their place on the map.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Covenant speech is detached from actual places; this verse anchors it among a river, inhabited land, and named landmarks.
THE ROOT
גִּלְגָּל
Gilgal
GROWS FROM
ג-ל-ל
To roll or roll away.
Gilgal carries the sound of galal, “roll away,” and Joshua 5:9 explicitly connects the place’s name with the reproach of Egypt being rolled away. So this landmark carries a memory of release within its name.
ALSO GROWS
galal: To roll or roll away.
גָּלַל
This is the verb Joshua 5:9 uses when it links Gilgal with the rolling away of Egypt’s reproach.
galgal: A wheel or rolling circle.
גַּלְגַּל
This related form holds the root’s circular motion, echoing the sound and shape of Gilgal.
מֹרֶה
Moreh
GROWS FROM
י-ר-ה
To cast or point; by extension, to direct or teach.
Moreh is commonly linked to yarah, “direct” or “teach,” and can carry the sense of an instructor or one who points the way. The name makes this landmark sound like a signpost as well as a place.
ALSO GROWS
yarah: To cast, shoot, or direct.
יָרָה
Its sense of pointing or directing underlies the name’s association with instruction.
torah: Instruction or direction.
תּוֹרָה
Torah is instruction shaped from the same root, giving Moreh’s teacher-sense a wider branch.
יַרְדֵּן
Yarden
GROWS FROM
י-ר-ד
To descend or go down.
The Jordan’s name is linked to yarad, “descend.” The verse’s location is therefore described through movement as well as position: the named river marks a passage through the landscape.
ALSO GROWS
yarad: To descend or go down.
יָרַד
This verb gives the root meaning carried in the river’s name.
yeridah: A descent or going down.
יְרִידָה
This noun keeps the movement of yarad visible in another form.
THE PATTERN
Place names in scripture preserve meaning by attaching a site to an action, a feature, or a remembered event.
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.THE THREAD
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.Joshua 5:9 explicitly joins Gilgal to galal, “roll away,” and names the reproach of Egypt as what is rolled away. That shared root lets the Gilgal in this verse carry the motion of release inside its place-name.
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