What Does Joshua 13:19 Mean in the King James?
And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley,
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
קִרְיָתַיִם (Qiryathayim, “two cities”) names a paired settlement, while “mount of the valley” holds height and depth together.
THE MEANING
This inheritance takes shape through named places and landforms: the verse places towns beside a mountain and a valley. The Hebrew word עֵמֶק (ʿemeq, “valley”) shares its root with the word for depth, so the lowland is also named by its depth.
THE ROOT
הָעֵמֶק
ha’emeq
GROWS FROM
עמק
ʿ-m-q
To be deep; depth.
English names the landform, but Hebrew’s עמק (ʿ-m-q) also yields עֹמֶק (ʿomeq, “depth”) and עָמֹק (ʿamoq, “deep”). The valley here is not only a shape in the landscape: the same root names depth itself.
ALSO GROWS
ʿomeq: Depth.
עֹמֶק
This noun shares its root with עֵמֶק (ʿemeq, “valley”), showing that the terrain’s name is also a depth word.
ʿamoq: Deep.
עָמֹק
This adjective carries the root into anything deep, not only a geographic hollow.
THE PATTERN
An inheritance becomes legible through named places and the terrain or boundaries that hold them.
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
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.The root עמק (ʿ-m-q, “to be deep”) names the valley in Joshua and describes the heart as deep here. The same root opens from the depth of the land into the depth of the inward thought.
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