What Does Joshua 11:22 Mean in the King James?
There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
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 says “none were left” with one root, then “they remained” with another, making the exception a second, precise truth.
THE MEANING
The verse holds a sweeping absence and a specific remainder together: the Anakim are gone from the land of the children of Israel, yet remain in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. Their remaining is not vague; the verse names its boundaries.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that if something is absent from most of a place, it must be absent everywhere.
THE ROOT
נותר
notar
GROWS FROM
יתר
yathar
To remain over, to be left as a remainder.
The first clause uses notar, from yathar: no Anakim are left over in the land. The verse then shifts to a different root for those who remain in three named cities, separating the broad absence from the surviving residue.
ALSO GROWS
yeter: Remainder; what is left over or in excess.
יֶתֶר
It makes the idea of being left concrete: something remains beyond what has been removed.
yitron: Surplus, advantage, or gain.
יִתְרוֹן
This branch carries the sense of what remains over into what is left after accounting for the rest.
נשארו
nisharu
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
To remain or be left behind.
“remained” in this verse is nisharu. Nisharu comes from sha’ar, a root also used for a remnant or surviving portion. Here the verse locates that remainder precisely: Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
ALSO GROWS
she'ar: A remnant; what remains.
שְׁאָר
It names the surviving portion that the verse locates in three cities.
she'erit: Remnant; surviving portion.
שְׁאֵרִית
It carries the same root idea of what persists after the rest is gone.
THE PATTERN
A sweeping absence can still leave a named remnant, and the text keeps both claims in view.
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.THE THREAD
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.The verb “remained” here and “I have left” in 1 Kings 19:18 share the Hebrew root שאר (sha’ar), meaning to remain or be left behind. The people and circumstances differ, but the root connects both verses through the language of a remainder that survives.
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