What Does Joshua 13:2 Mean in the King James?
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
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 names the remainder as land itself: what remains is concrete, bounded, and still present.
THE MEANING
What remains is not an abstract void: the verse names territory, borders, and peoples. The land is still present, and its limits can be stated. The Philistines and Geshurites remain visible in the description of that territory.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what remains must be shapeless or undefined. Here, the remainder has named borders and peoples.
THE ROOT
הַנִּשְׁאָרֶת
hanish'eret
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
To remain; to be left over.
“remaineth” in this verse is hanish'eret. The Hebrew describes the land itself as what remains, keeping the remainder concrete and present. The same root also names a remnant: what remains is a portion that persists, not a blank.
ALSO GROWS
she'ar: Remnant, remainder.
שְׁאָר
This noun makes the idea of remaining a portion still present, like the land named here.
she'erit: Remnant, surviving portion.
שְׁאֵרִית
This form carries the same root into the idea of a portion that persists, linking the remaining land to what remains of a people or whole.
THE PATTERN
What remains is still a definite portion of the story, and its form can be named.
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.THE THREAD
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.Isaiah’s “remnant” is שְׁאָר (she’ar, remnant), from שאר (sha’ar, remain or be left over), the same root behind “remaineth” here. English places the word on land in Joshua and on people in Isaiah, while Hebrew carries the shared idea of what is left.
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