What Does Genesis 10:30 Mean in the King James?
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
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 Hebrew word for “dwelling” carries both settling and the place settled, giving habitation a measurable reach.
THE MEANING
A dwelling has a reach: this verse locates a people between named places and toward the eastern highlands. Here, dwelling names both the act of settling and the ground a people inhabit.
THE ROOT
מוֹשָׁבָם
moshavam
GROWS FROM
ישב
To sit, settle, or dwell.
The word מוֹשָׁבָם (moshavam, their dwelling) grows from יָשַׁב (yashav, to sit or dwell). The same root can name both the act of settling and the place where people settle, so the verse’s span from Mesha to Sephar gives dwelling a tangible extent.
ALSO GROWS
yashav: To sit, settle, or dwell.
יָשַׁב
The verb behind “dwelling” shows that habitation begins as the act of settling into a place.
moshav: A dwelling place, settlement, or seat.
מוֹשָׁב
This noun from the same root names the place that results from settling, joining an action to its location.
THE PATTERN
Scripture depicts dwelling as inhabiting an actual place with a reach and bounds.
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.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
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.The Hebrew verb וְשָׁבְתִּי (veshavti, and I will dwell) shares the root ישב (yashav, to settle or dwell) with מוֹשָׁבָם (moshavam, their dwelling). Genesis names the extent of a people’s dwelling; the psalm uses that same root for a person dwelling in the LORD’s house.
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