What Does Deuteronomy 3:10 Mean in the King James?
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
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 verse turns possession into a map: the full reach of the land is made visible by naming it.
THE MEANING
The passage gives you the whole reach in a single gaze: the plain, Gilead, Bashan, then the boundary cities Salchah and Edrei. Its fullness is concrete and locatable; the named ground has edges rather than remaining an idea.
THE ROOT
מִישׁוֹר
mîšôr
GROWS FROM
י־ש־ר
To be straight, level, or upright.
The plain is מִישׁוֹר (mishor), from י־ש־ר (y-sh-r), whose root sense is level, straight, upright. Hebrew lets the evenness of the landscape and the idea of uprightness share one seed: this territory is named as level ground, not just a broad expanse.
ALSO GROWS
yashar: Straight, level, or upright.
יָשָׁר
The landscape’s levelness and the quality of uprightness grow from the same root.
meysharim: Level ground; also equity or uprightness.
מֵישָׁרִים
Psalm 26:12 uses this related form for an even place where a foot can stand, bringing the plain’s physical levelness into view.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes received ground tangible by naming its extent, boundaries, or lines.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: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;The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.THE THREAD
My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.The “even place” is מֵישָׁרִים (meysharim), from the same י־ש־ר (y-sh-r) root as מִישׁוֹר (mishor), “plain.” The root connects the level land in Deuteronomy with ground firm enough for a person to stand on.
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