What Does Ezekiel 48:26 Mean in the King James?
And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
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
Zebulun’s name carries the idea of dwelling, and here that dwelling takes shape within a border shared with its neighbor.
THE MEANING
This verse gives Zebulun a defined place beside Issachar, with its boundary running from the east side to the west. The portion is distinct, yet it touches its neighbor; dwelling and belonging take shape within an edge.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A boundary means being cut off from every neighbor. Here the border gives Zebulun a distinct place where it meets Issachar.
THE ROOT
זְבֻלוּן
Zevulun
GROWS FROM
זבל
z-b-l
Dwell, or make a dwelling.
Zebulun’s name carries the language of dwelling. In this verse, the name is joined to a portion of land: dwelling has a defined place, with an edge that also meets a neighbor’s.
ALSO GROWS
yizbeleni: He will dwell with me.
יִזְבְּלֵנִי
Leah uses this word when naming Zebulun, joining the name to dwelling with another.
zebul: Abode, dwelling place.
זְבֻל
The word appears for a dwelling in Solomon’s description of the house built for God, echoing the dwelling carried in Zebulun’s name.
גְּבוּל
gevul
GROWS FROM
גבל
g-b-l
A boundary or limit that marks out territory.
The Hebrew word can mean both a border and the territory it defines. The edge is not separate from the inheritance: it gives the portion its shape and makes its place legible beside another.
ALSO GROWS
gevul: Border, boundary, or territory.
גְּבוּל
This is the word used for Issachar’s border in the verse; it names both the edge and the land marked by it.
gevulot: Borders or bounds.
גְּבֻלֹת
The plural form describes the bounds that mark out a people’s inheritance, connecting a single tribal border to the wider pattern of allotted place.
יִשָּׂשכָר
Yissakhar
GROWS FROM
שכר
s-k-r
Hire, wages, or reward.
Issachar’s name is linked to the language of wages or reward. Set beside Zebulun, whose name carries dwelling, the verse places the language of reward alongside a named place to dwell.
ALSO GROWS
sakar: Wages or reward.
שָׂכָר
Leah uses this word when naming Issachar, tying the name to recompense.
sakhir: A hired worker.
שָׂכִיר
This related word carries the same root into the person who receives wages, keeping the reward-language audible in Issachar’s name.
THE PATTERN
A defined boundary gives each inheritance a place while locating it among its neighbors.
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.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
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.The word translated “bounds” comes from גבל (g-b-l), the same root as Ezekiel’s “border” (גְּבוּל, gevul). The shared root links the two verses through the way an inheritance takes shape: its boundary gives a people a place.
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