What Does Joshua 19:34 Mean in the King James?
And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
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 line of an inheritance is drawn as a meeting, so its boundary describes relationship as much as separation.
THE MEANING
These borders give each inheritance a precise place: the line turns, leaves one landmark, and meets neighboring territories. The river and directions locate the edge in a landscape the reader can trace. Here, a limit gives belonging a shape and a place beside others.
THE ROOT
פָּגַע
pāgaʿ
GROWS FROM
פגע
p-g-ʿ
To meet, encounter, or come upon.
“reacheth” in this verse is pāgaʿ. The boundary’s “reach” is contact: it meets Zebulun and Asher instead of remaining an abstract edge. The same root can describe intercession, an encounter made on another’s behalf, so this line quietly makes the edge a point of relation.
ALSO GROWS
pāgaʿ: Meet, encounter, or reach.
פָּגַע
Here the boundary reaches the neighboring allotments: its edge is where lands come into contact.
hiphgi'a: Intercede or make an appeal.
הִפְגִּיעַ
This causative form can describe making an encounter on another’s behalf, extending the root’s sense of contact between parties.
THE PATTERN
A boundary gives an inheritance its shape by naming where it meets what lies beside it.
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.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 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.The Hebrew verb translated “reacheth” here comes from פגע (pāgaʿ), the same root translated “met” in Genesis. A border is the place where one inheritance encounters another; the word itself holds that meeting.
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