What Does Joshua 12:22 Mean in the King James?
The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
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
Even in this bare tally, Kedesh carries the seed of “set apart,” so the king is recorded under a name that already marks distinction.
THE MEANING
You see two entries held apart by place: the king of Kedesh is counted as one, and the king of Jokneam of Carmel is counted as one. The repeated count makes each ruler a separate entry in the record.
THE ROOT
קֶדֶשׁ
Qedesh
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To be set apart or consecrated.
Kedesh shares its consonantal seed with words for what is set apart and with the word for a sanctuary. The place-name carries that echo of distinction inside an otherwise spare count of kings.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; holy.
קָדוֹשׁ
This familiar branch makes the set-apart sense carried by Kedesh audible.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
This branch connects the city-name’s root with a place marked as set apart.
THE PATTERN
A count can hold particulars in view instead of reducing them to an anonymous total.
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.THE THREAD
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.Kedesh shares its root with קָדוֹשׁ (qadosh, set apart), the word-family behind “holy” here. The city-name thus carries an echo of set-apartness inside Joshua’s spare count of kings.
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