What Does Joshua 15:35 Mean in the King James?

Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

Joshua 15:35 · KJV

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

This list turns inheritance into geography: belonging is marked out in particular places with particular names.

THE MEANING

The verse names Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah as part of Judah’s allotted ground. It presents belonging as something concrete, shaped by actual places rather than left as an abstraction.

THE ROOT

יַרְמוּת

Yarmuth

GROWS FROM

רוּם

rum

To rise, be high, or be lifted up.

Jarmuth is commonly glossed “height” and is linked to the root for rising or being high. The place-name carries a sense of elevation within this otherwise spare list, while the same root also describes lifting something up.

ALSO GROWS

ram: High or elevated.

רָם

This branch makes the height carried by Jarmuth’s name more visible.

herim: Raised or lifted something.

הֵרִים

The root’s sense moves from being high to the act of lifting up.

terumah: A contribution or offering set apart by lifting it up.

תְּרוּמָה

This branch preserves the root’s image of elevation in an act of setting something forward.

THE PATTERN

What is given becomes inhabitable through particular places and boundaries.

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Genesis 13:17 · KJVThe land is made tangible through its length and breadth, not left as an undefined promise.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

Joshua 15:20 · KJVThe inheritance is named as a concrete allotment that the towns in this chapter specify.

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;

Acts 17:26 · KJVHuman dwelling is described through the bounds that give each habitation its place.

THE THREAD

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

Joshua 15:20 · KJV

The preceding verse names the larger frame: Judah’s inheritance. This verse gives that frame particular shape by naming four towns within it.

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