What Does Ezekiel 47:15 Mean in the King James?
And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
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 border is traced as a route between named landmarks, so the inheritance has an edge you can actually follow.
THE MEANING
The land has a defined northern edge, traced from the Great Sea along the road of Hethlon toward Zedad. The route and its endpoints give the inheritance a visible shape and a clear limit.
THE ROOT
גְּבוּל
gevul
GROWS FROM
גבל
g-b-l
To set a boundary, to bound.
The word for border can also mean territory: the boundary gives the land its defined shape. Here the inheritance is not an indistinct expanse; it has a limit that can be traced.
ALSO GROWS
gābal: To mark or establish a limit.
גָּבַל
The border noun grows from the act of bounding the land.
gevul: A boundary or the territory it defines.
גְּבוּל
The same word names the northern edge and the land shaped by that edge.
הַדֶּרֶךְ
haderekh
GROWS FROM
דרך
d-r-k
To tread, step, or travel.
English way can sound abstract, but derek carries the sense of a route underfoot. The border follows a road, connecting the land’s limit to a line of movement through the landscape.
ALSO GROWS
dārak: To place the foot on a path or move along it.
דָּרַךְ
The root holds the physical act that makes a route walkable.
déreḵ: A traveled way or course.
דֶּרֶךְ
This is the route named in the verse, marking how the boundary runs.
THE PATTERN
A gift of land becomes concrete through named limits that give it a shape and place.
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:The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.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
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.Both verses use derek (דֶּרֶךְ), meaning way or route: here it traces the northern boundary, while Isaiah names a way through the wilderness. The same word can mark the edge of a place and open a passage through it.
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