What Does Joshua 19:28 Mean in the King James?
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
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
One marker in this boundary list means “broad place,” so spaciousness is named within the very line that defines the territory.
THE MEANING
This verse gives you a geography through named places, reaching from Hebron through Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah to great Zidon. Rehob carries the sense of a broad, open place, so breadth stands within the territory’s defined reach.
THE ROOT
רְחֹב
Reḥōv
GROWS FROM
רחב
To be wide or spacious.
Rehob carries the root רחב (raḥav), “to be wide,” inside a place-name in this boundary list. English gives you a location; the Hebrew name also lets breadth sound within the territory’s defined reach.
ALSO GROWS
raḥav: To be wide or spacious.
רָחַב
This verbal form makes explicit the breadth carried in Rehob’s name.
merḥav: A broad or open place.
מֶרְחָב
This noun shows the same root describing spaciousness as a place one can enter.
reḥov: A broad street or open place.
רְחֹב
This place-word shares the root that gives Rehob its sense of breadth.
THE PATTERN
Belonging becomes inhabitable when its reach is named.
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
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.Rehob carries רחב (raḥav), “to be wide”; Psalm 118:5 uses מֶרְחָב (merḥav), “a broad place,” from the same root. The boundary marker’s breadth becomes the spacious place where the speaker finds room.
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