What Does Joshua 19:14 Mean in the King James?
And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah-el:
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’s outgoings meet a valley named Jiphthah-El, “El opens”, so the verse holds an edge and an opening in the same place.
THE MEANING
Your portion has real, traceable edges, and its boundary reaches a named valley. The text places those outgoings in Jiphthah-El, a name that carries “El opens.” Limit and opening occupy the same landscape.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
An edge always means a dead end. Here, the boundary reaches a valley whose name speaks of opening.
THE ROOT
תֹצְאֹתָיו
totza'otav
GROWS FROM
יצא
to go out, come forth
The word for the boundary’s “outgoings” comes from the movement of going out. The edge is described not only as a line around a portion, but by the places where it issues outward.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: to go out, come forth
יָצָא
The same root makes the boundary’s endpoints into acts of going out.
motsa: an exit, departure, or point of issue
מוֹצָא
This related form shows how the root can name the place where something goes out, much like the boundary’s outgoings.
יִפְתַּח־אֵל
Yiphtaḥ-El
GROWS FROM
פתח
to open
“Jiphthah-El” in this verse is Yiphtaḥ-El. The place name carries the phrase “El opens.” At the boundary’s outgoings, the verse names a valley with opening built into its name, setting that image beside the idea of an edge.
ALSO GROWS
pataḥ: to open
פָּתַח
This is the verb carried in Jiphthah-El’s name.
petaḥ: an opening or doorway
פֶּתַח
The related noun makes the root’s sense of opening concrete at the place named along this boundary.
THE PATTERN
A portion becomes legible through its measured bounds and the places where its boundary goes out.
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.The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.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 a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.The same root, יצא (yatsa), describes the river that “went out” from Eden. In Joshua it names the boundary’s outgoings; in Genesis, what goes out carries water to the garden.
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