What Does Joshua 18:19 Mean in the King James?

And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.

Joshua 18:19 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The Hebrew calls a border’s endpoints its “goings out,” so the boundary is known by where its line emerges.

THE MEANING

This verse traces a territory across named ground: past Beth-hoglah (⁨בֵּית חָגְלָה⁩, Bēt-Ḥoglāh, commonly glossed “house of the partridge”), then to the Salt Sea and the Jordan. Its endpoints are described as “goings out,” places where the line comes forth.

THE ROOT

תּוֹצְאוֹת

totza'ot

GROWS FROM

יצא

To go out, come forth.

The Hebrew word for the border’s endpoints grows from the verb “to go out.” The English “outgoings” preserves a hint of that movement: the boundary is described through the places where its course comes forth.

ALSO GROWS

yatsa: To go out, come forth.

יָצָא

The verb supplies the movement inside “outgoings”: the line reaches its defined limit by coming out to a place.

motsa: An exit, outlet, or place of going out.

מוֹצָא

This related noun makes the endpoint concrete as an outlet or emergence point, like the places named along this border.

THE PATTERN

A territory becomes legible through the landmarks and endpoints that mark its edge.

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.

Numbers 34:12 · KJVThe border is traced to its endpoint at the Jordan and Salt Sea, with “goings out” naming where its course ends.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Psalm 19:6 · KJVThe sun’s course is made legible by its going forth and the ends it reaches.

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 · KJVThe verse describes habitation through the bounds that give its extent.

THE THREAD

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.

Numbers 34:12 · KJV

Both passages use forms from ⁨יצא⁩ (yatsa, “to go out”) for a border’s endpoints. Numbers names the larger perimeter, while Joshua locates this stretch at the Salt Sea and Jordan.

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