What Does Joshua 19:22 Mean in the King James?
And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen 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
Inheritance becomes tangible where its edges meet named places and open out toward the Jordan.
THE MEANING
Your inheritance takes shape in real places of contact, with limits that make room for homes and villages. The border meets named landmarks and reaches the Jordan, and the verse counts sixteen cities with their villages. Beth-shemesh (בֵּית־שֶׁמֶשׁ, Bêt-shemesh, “house of the sun”) and Jordan (יַרְדֵּן, Yardēn, traditionally associated with “the descender”) give those limits names with meaning.
THE ROOT
תֹּצְאוֹת
totsa'ot
GROWS FROM
יצא
to go out, come forth
The Hebrew noun keeps movement in view: the border is described by its outgoings, the points where it comes out or ends. The root gives the boundary an outward edge, opening onto the Jordan rather than remaining an abstract line.
ALSO GROWS
yāṣāʾ: to go out; to come forth
יָצָא
The endpoint noun in the verse is built from this same movement outward.
môṣāʾ: an exit, going out, or source
מוֹצָא
The root can name both the movement out and the point where it emerges, matching the verse’s account of the border’s extent.
hôṣîʾ: to bring or lead out
הוֹצִיא
This form carries the same root into the act of bringing something outward.
וּפָגַע
u-pāgaʿ
GROWS FROM
פגע
to meet, encounter, or come upon
“reacheth” in this verse is u-pāgaʿ. The border’s verb describes contact: it meets or comes upon Tabor, Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh. The same root can describe intervening on another’s behalf, so its range carries consequential encounter as well as physical meeting.
ALSO GROWS
pāgaʿ: to meet, encounter, or come upon
פָּגַע
This is the basic contact sense used as the border reaches the named places.
hipgîaʿ: to intercede or entreat
הִפְגִּיעַ
The root’s sense of encounter extends to intervening on another’s behalf, showing how contact can carry consequence.
יַרְדֵּן
Yardēn
GROWS FROM
ירד
to descend, go down
Jordan’s name is traditionally connected with the root meaning “descend.” The border’s terminal landmark carries movement in its name as well as marking a place.
ALSO GROWS
yārad: to descend or go down
יָרַד
This root supplies the descent-sense associated with the name Jordan.
hôrîd: to bring down or cause to descend
הוֹרִיד
This form carries the same root into the act of causing something to move downward.
THE PATTERN
An inheritance becomes inhabitable when its boundaries meet real places and give its extent a shape.
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 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 same root יָצָא (yāṣāʾ, “go out” or “come forth”) underlies the “goings out” here and the “outgoings” in Joshua. Together, the verses describe a boundary through its movement and endpoints, making the inheritance’s extent visible.
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