What Does Joshua 18:14 Mean in the King James?
And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
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 endpoint holds two place-natures, קִרְיַת בַּעַל (Qiryat-Baʿal, “city of Baal”) and קִרְיַת יְעָרִים (Qiryat-Yeʿarim, “city of forests”), so geography itself carries layered identity.
THE MEANING
The western edge becomes legible through the terrain it follows and the town where it ends. That endpoint is identified both by its two names and as a city of Judah.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The idea that a boundary is only an abstract line, detached from nearby land and communities, gives way to an edge traced through a hill, a sea-facing turn, and a named town.
THE ROOT
תֹּצְאֹתָיו
totsa'otav
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ts-ʾ
go out, emerge, depart
The word names the border’s “goings out,” preserving the motion of יצא (yatsaʾ, “go out”) inside what can sound like a fixed endpoint. Related forms name an outlet or what comes out as a result, so the western edge reads as a course reaching a point of emergence.
ALSO GROWS
motsaʾ: outlet, exit, point of emergence
מוֹצָא
This related noun names a place of going out, echoing the point where the border’s course emerges.
hotsiʾ: bring out, lead out
הוֹצִיא
This causative form makes the movement active, revealing the outward motion still present in the border’s “goings out.”
THE PATTERN
A place becomes legible through the boundaries and landmarks that locate it.
And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim:And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.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
And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim:Joshua 15:9 also uses יצא (yatsaʾ, “go out”) as the border goes out toward the cities before reaching Kirjath-jearim. The shared root and shared endpoint make the adjoining edges read as courses moving through named places.
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