What Does Joshua 13:18 Mean in the King James?
And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
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
Belonging becomes tangible through named places, and one name carries both a direction and the sense of what came before.
THE MEANING
These names make belonging concrete: what is yours has a place, and the place has a name. Kedemoth carries a root that also means what is before or east, so a location can hold both direction and depth of time.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that belonging is only a vague promise dissolves here: the verse gives it named places.
THE ROOT
קְדֵמוֹת
Qedemoth
GROWS FROM
קדם
q-d-m
Come before, be in front; by extension, east or ancient.
Kedemoth is linked with קדם, the root of coming before or being in front. קֶדֶם can mean the east, the direction of the front, as well as ancient time, so the name gives this place both an orientation and a depth of time.
ALSO GROWS
qedem: East, front, or ancient time.
קֶדֶם
This branch shows that Kedemoth’s name can hold both a direction and the sense of what came before.
qadam: Come before or precede.
קָדַם
The verb reveals the root’s underlying motion: what is in front is what comes before.
qedmah: Eastward, toward the front.
קֵדְמָה
This directional form connects the name to places oriented toward the east.
THE PATTERN
An inheritance becomes tangible when it is located, measured, or named.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.THE THREAD
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.Kedemoth echoes קדם, the root behind “eastward” here. The same root ties place to what is in front or what came before, revealing how a place name can carry more than a label.
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