What Does Joshua 13:32 Mean in the King James?
These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
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
Inheritance is not only promised; it is apportioned into a place someone can belong to.
THE MEANING
Here, inheritance takes shape as a share with a place. The verse locates that share east of the Jordan, by Jericho, so belonging has a geography within a larger whole. It speaks of what is received as something definite, not abstract.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the idea that inheritance is only a promise without a concrete share: here, it is located and apportioned.
THE ROOT
נִחַל
niḥal
GROWS FROM
נחל
To inherit or take possession; in a causative form, to give someone an inheritance.
“did distribute for inheritance” in this verse is niḥal. The Hebrew gathers “distribute” and “inheritance” into one action: to allot is to cause someone to inherit. The share becomes both a possession and a place of belonging.
ALSO GROWS
naḥălāh: Inheritance; an allotted possession.
נַחֲלָה
This noun shows that what is inherited is a particular share, illuminating the verse’s concrete distribution of territory.
hinḥîl: To cause someone to inherit; to allot.
הִנְחִיל
This causative form names the giving side of inheritance: someone receives a defined portion from another.
THE PATTERN
An inheritance becomes tangible as a portion received within a larger whole.
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.THE THREAD
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.The Hebrew word נַחֲלָה (naḥălāh, inheritance) comes from the same נחל (nāḥal, inherit or allot) root family. Joshua names an allotment already made; Numbers makes clear how inheritance takes form, as a portion assigned among a people.
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