What Does Joshua 19:31 Mean in the King James?
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these 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
Asher’s inheritance carries flourishing in the very name of the people who receive it.
THE MEANING
Here inheritance takes visible shape: a people receives a share made up of cities and villages, held according to families. Asher’s name carries happiness at its root, so the allotted place bears a name connected with flourishing. The verse makes belonging concrete: a share within a people has both a name and a place.
THE ROOT
אָשֵׁר
Asher
GROWS FROM
א־ש־ר
ʾ-š-r
Be happy; flourish.
Asher is more than a label: the name shares its root with Hebrew words for happiness. The inheritance in this verse belongs to a people whose very name carries that meaning.
ALSO GROWS
ashrei: Flourishing; happy.
אַשְׁרֵי
This form shares Asher’s root and carries the sense of flourishing into the name.
osher: Happiness.
אֹשֶׁר
This noun makes the happiness inside Asher’s name visible as a shared root meaning.
נַחֲלָה
nachalah
GROWS FROM
נחל
n-ḥ-l
Inherit; take possession.
“inheritance” in this verse is nachalah. Nachalah names a received possession or share, not something a person creates from nothing. The verse gives that share concrete form in its families, cities, and villages.
ALSO GROWS
nachal: To inherit or take possession.
נָחַל
The verb shows the action beneath the noun: an inheritance is what is received and possessed.
nachalah: Inheritance; an allotted possession.
נַחֲלָה
This noun names the share assigned to Asher’s families.
THE PATTERN
Belonging takes shape as a received share held within a larger people.
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.THE THREAD
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.Genesis 30:13 places Asher beside words meaning happy, revealing the root carried in the name. Joshua then names the inheritance of that same Asher, so the allotted place bears a people-name rooted in happiness.
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