What Does Joshua 19:37 Mean in the King James?
And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
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 land’s names are part of its inheritance: Kedesh carries “set apart,” while En-hazor preserves a spring in the map.
THE MEANING
What you receive is not a blank expanse: it arrives with named places, each carrying its character. Kedesh holds the language of being set apart, and En-hazor names a spring. This list gives the portion shape through both distinction and source.
THE ROOT
קֶדֶשׁ
Qedesh
GROWS FROM
ק־ד־שׁ
q-d-sh
To set apart; to make sacred.
Kedesh shares its root with words for what is set apart and with the word for a sanctuary. Its name carries that quality into the map: this place is marked as distinct within the inheritance.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; holy.
קָדוֹשׁ
The shared root shows the quality carried by Kedesh’s name.
qodesh: Set-apartness; sacredness.
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun makes explicit the quality held within the place-name.
miqdash: Sanctuary; set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The place-name and the sanctuary word share the same root of being set apart.
עֵין
ʿEn
GROWS FROM
ע־י־ן
ʿ-y-n
Eye; also a spring or source.
En-hazor means “spring of Hazor”; its first word is the same Hebrew noun that can mean “eye.” The name keeps a source within the place, a detail the English spelling of the compound can obscure.
ALSO GROWS
ʿayin: Eye; also a spring or source.
עַיִן
This is the noun appearing in En-hazor, where it means spring.
maʿyan: Spring; fountain.
מַעְיָן
This related word makes the spring or source branch of the root visible.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets a place’s name or defining quality carry meaning beyond its location.
And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:THE THREAD
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.“Holy” here is qodesh (קֹדֶשׁ, set-apartness), from the same root as Kedesh (קֶדֶשׁ, set apart). The city named in the allotment carries the same quality as the ground declared set apart here.
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