What Does Joshua 15:6 Mean in the King James?
And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
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 border is described as a crossing through named places, anchored by a stone, not merely as an invisible line.
THE MEANING
You can trace the boundary as it passes north of Beth-arabah and rises to Bohan’s stone. Its course becomes legible through direction, movement, and a named landmark.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A boundary is only an abstract line; here, it takes a course through places and is anchored to a landmark.
THE ROOT
עָבַר
ʿāvar
GROWS FROM
עבר
To cross, pass over, or go through.
“passed along” in this verse is ʿāvar. This verb shares its root with עֵבֶר, “the beyond” or “the far side,” and מַעֲבָר, “a crossing” or “passage.” The border is made legible through movement across the landscape, with the stone marking a point along its course.
ALSO GROWS
ʿēver: The beyond; the far side or region across.
עֵבֶר
The border’s passage gives the landscape a far side: crossing makes one side distinct from the other.
maʿavār: A crossing or passage.
מַעֲבָר
Like a passage, this boundary is traced by where it goes and the landmarks along its way.
THE PATTERN
A boundary becomes legible through the limits and markers that locate it.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.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;Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.THE THREAD
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.“Passed” in Genesis and “passed along” here come from the Hebrew root עבר, to cross or go through. One traces a person’s movement across the land; the other traces a boundary’s course through it.
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