What Does Deuteronomy 3:13 Mean in the King James?
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
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
What English calls “the rest” is still placed as an inheritance, even where the name of the giants remains.
THE MEANING
The remainder of the land still enters the inheritance; no part is outside the distribution. Even a place known by its formidable name becomes ground received by Manasseh, so that name does not exhaust what the place can become.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a place bearing a frightening name cannot become a place of belonging gives way here.
THE ROOT
נָתַן
nathan
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place.
“gave” in this verse is nathan. Nathan carries both giving and placing. The land appears as an allotted place received as inheritance.
ALSO GROWS
mattanah: Gift.
מַתָּנָה
This branch makes the act of giving land resonate with receiving a gift.
nethinim: Those given or assigned to service.
נְתִינִים
The word preserves the root’s sense of people or things being placed into an assigned role.
יֶתֶר
yether
GROWS FROM
יתר
To remain, be left over, or exceed.
“rest” in this verse is yether. The phrase begins with what remains after other portions are assigned. The root also carries the sense of surplus, so the remainder still stands as a real portion within the inheritance.
ALSO GROWS
yathar: To remain or be left over.
יָתַר
This verb names the state of the land described as “the rest.”
yitron: Surplus, gain, or what remains beyond the basic amount.
יִתְרוֹן
This branch echoes the idea that what remains still has value and a place in the whole.
מְנַשֶּׁה
Menasheh
GROWS FROM
נשה
To forget, or to cause to forget.
Manasseh’s name comes from the causative form of “forget”: “God hath made me forget all my toil” (Genesis 41:51). Beside this allotment, the name carries a resonance of release from what has weighed on a family.
ALSO GROWS
nashah: To forget.
נָשָׁה
This verb is the seed behind the name’s association with forgetting.
nashani: He has made me forget.
נַשַּׁנִי
This form in Genesis 41:51 connects the name Manasseh with forgetting toil.
THE PATTERN
A bounded portion becomes an inheritance when it is received as a gift.
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.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 THREAD
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.The name Manasseh carries the root of forgetting, and Genesis gives the name’s own explanation. Its appearance here ties an allotted place to a name formed around what has receded from view.
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