What Does Ezekiel 47:20 Mean in the King James?
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
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 western edge is anchored by a sea and closed at a named threshold.
THE MEANING
You see a place given a definite western edge: the great sea marks it, and the line reaches the point facing Hamath. The closing words restate the side and make its limit explicit.
THE ROOT
לְבוֹא
levo
GROWS FROM
בוא
b-w-ʾ
to come, enter
“come” in this verse is levo. לְבוֹא חֲמָת (levo Hamath, entrance of Hamath) names the approach to Hamath as the limit. The root holds movement and place together: the boundary reaches the threshold where entry begins.
ALSO GROWS
bo: to come or enter
בּוֹא
The verse’s endpoint carries the sense of arriving at a place.
mavo: entrance or approach
מָבוֹא
This branch makes clear how the language of coming can also mark a boundary by an entrance.
מִגְּבוּל
miggevul
GROWS FROM
גבל
g-b-l
to border, mark off
The root connects the border with the act of setting a limit. Here the western side has a definite extent, measured between a named border and a named threshold.
ALSO GROWS
gevul: border, boundary, territory
גְּבוּל
This noun names the bounded extent that the verse locates.
gabal: to border or set a boundary
גָּבַל
The verb shows the action within the boundary: marking where one territory ends.
THE PATTERN
A named boundary makes the extent of an inheritance visible.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.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
From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:Numbers names the same entrance of Hamath as a limit, using the same threshold marker. The Hebrew בוא (bo, to come or enter) carries both arrival and entrance, so the endpoint is also a passage into the land.
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