What Does Joshua 13:5 Mean in the King James?
And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
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 eastern boundary carries motion in its name: it faces the place where the sun rises.
THE MEANING
Named places give the land a visible shape, while the rising sun marks its eastern face. What is held out as inheritance has contours, not an undefined expanse.
THE ROOT
מִזְרָח
mizrach
GROWS FROM
זרח
to rise, shine, break forth
“sunrising” in this verse is mizrach. מִזְרָח (mizrach), “sunrise; east,” grows from זָרַח (zarach), “to rise, shine.” The border faces the sun’s appearing, so its eastern edge carries a sense of emergence.
ALSO GROWS
zarach: to rise, shine
זָרַח
The verb names the sun’s action; the direction is named from where that action begins.
mizrach: sunrise; east
מִזְרָח
The verse’s direction retains the event inside its name: east is the rising place.
THE PATTERN
A named inheritance becomes visible through its edges and directions.
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.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
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.Joshua’s מִזְרָח (mizrach), “sunrise; east,” and Psalm 113’s word for “rising” share the root זרח (zarach), “to rise, shine.” Here that rising marks a land’s eastern edge; in the psalm, it stretches across the whole day.
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