What Does Joshua 15:62 Mean in the King James?
And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
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 City of Salt and En-gedi, the “spring of a kid”, share one map, holding a harsh landscape and a water source side by side.
THE MEANING
You meet Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi as the final three names in a six-city count, each with its surrounding villages. The names keep the landscape concrete: salt and a spring associated with young life belong to the same inhabited terrain.
THE ROOT
עַיִן
ʿayin
GROWS FROM
עין
ʿ-y-n
Eye; spring or source of water.
The name En-gedi contains עַיִן (ʿayin), a word for both “eye” and “spring.” English leaves the place name opaque; Hebrew lets you hear a spring as the water’s visible source, here paired with the City of Salt.
ALSO GROWS
ʿayin: Eye.
עַיִן
This sense makes the spring an image of a visible opening or source in the landscape.
ʿayin: A spring or water source.
עַיִן
This is the sense carried in En-gedi, the spring associated with a kid.
חָצֵר
ḥāṣēr
GROWS FROM
חצר
ḥ-ṣ-r
An enclosed court or settled enclosure.
The word rendered “villages” shares its seed with a word for an enclosed court. The verse’s settlements are not just dots on a map: the language also evokes bounded places where people gather and dwell.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṣēr: An enclosed court or space.
חָצֵר
This sense gives the village a shape: a bounded place within the wider terrain.
ḥāṣēr: A village or settled place.
חָצֵר
This is the sense used for the surrounding settlements counted with the cities.
THE PATTERN
Water sources turn into named landmarks where life can be found.
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.THE THREAD
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.The same En-gedi named here appears in a vision of abundant waters and fishers. Read beside the City of Salt, that returning place name lets salt-land and overflowing life occupy the same scriptural map.
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