What Does Joshua 19:13 Mean in the King James?

And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah;

Joshua 19:13 · 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

The boundary is narrated as something that goes out, so even a limit is drawn through movement.

THE MEANING

This verse lets you see a boundary traced across real places, not only as an abstract line. Passing on and going out give the edge a direction; limit and movement sit together.

THE ROOT

וְיָצָא

veyatsa

GROWS FROM

יצא

To go out, come forth, or emerge.

“goeth out” in this verse is veyatsa. The border does not simply stop at a named place; it goes out toward the next one. The Hebrew root also forms words for a departure and an outlet, keeping the boundary connected to passage and emergence.

ALSO GROWS

yetsi’ah: Going out; departure.

יְצִיאָה

This branch makes the verse’s boundary verb part of a wider language of leaving one place and entering another.

motsa: An outlet or place of going out; also a source.

מוֹצָא

An outlet is where something emerges, echoing the border’s movement onward from one named point.

THE PATTERN

Scripture makes a place legible by naming the boundaries and endpoints that shape it.

And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.

Numbers 34:9 · KJVThe border is traced as a route with a named endpoint, just as Joshua’s boundary passes through named places.

The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.

Ezekiel 47:20 · KJVThe territory becomes legible through its edge and the places that mark where that edge runs.

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 names habitation’s bounds as part of how human life is situated across the earth.

THE THREAD

And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:41 · KJV

The boundary’s “goeth out” and the people’s “went out” share the root ⁨יצא⁩ (yatsa), “to go out or emerge.” In Exodus, that going out carries a people beyond constriction; here, the same movement traces the edge through its named places.

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