What Does Joshua 19:30 Mean in the King James?
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two 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
The verse counts a whole inhabited network, cities together with the villages that surround them.
THE MEANING
This line lets you see a whole region at once: cities and their villages belong in one count. The center does not stand alone; the surrounding dwellings remain part of what is named.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that only the central city matters is undone here: the villages remain attached to the count.
THE ROOT
רְחֹב
Reḥōb
GROWS FROM
רחב
To be broad, wide, or spacious.
Rehob carries the root sense of breadth. Its word-family also names an open place or expanse, so this town name holds an echo of spaciousness inside a list of counted places.
ALSO GROWS
raḥav: To be broad or become spacious.
רָחַב
This verb carries the same breadth that Rehob compresses into a place name.
merḥav: A broad place, open space, or expanse.
מֶרְחָב
This noun uses the same root for spacious ground, connecting Rehob to the language of an open place.
THE PATTERN
A place becomes livable and shareable when its expanse takes named, bounded form.
And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.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
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.Rehob carries the root רחב, “to be wide,” and “large place” here translates מֶרְחָב (merḥav), from that same root. The town name in Joshua opens into a word-family for spacious ground.
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