What Does Joshua 19:40 Mean in the King James?
And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
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 lot “comes out” for Dan, picturing its portion as something emerging into view with the families included.
THE MEANING
The verse names belonging at two scales: a tribe and the families within it. Dan’s portion comes into view with those households named, holding a place in a wider people together with the family lines that shape it.
THE ROOT
יָצָא
yāṣāʾ
GROWS FROM
יצא
To go out, come forth, or emerge.
The Hebrew verb יָצָא (yāṣāʾ, “came out”) gives the allotment the sense of something emerging into view. The verse presents Dan’s portion as a share that comes forth for the tribe, with its families named in the same breath.
ALSO GROWS
yeṣīʾāh: Going out or departure.
יְצִיאָה
This noun grows from יצא and makes the root’s movement outward explicit; Dan’s lot likewise comes forth as an assigned share.
môṣāʾ: An outlet, exit, or point of origin.
מוֹצָא
This noun is formed from יצא and names where something comes out; it echoes the verse’s image of Dan’s portion coming into view.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses the lot to bring an allotted outcome into view within a community.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.THE THREAD
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.Joshua says the lot comes out for Dan; Proverbs pictures that same lot cast into the lap. Both use גּוֹרָל (gōrāl, “lot”), while Proverbs opens the further claim that its settling belongs to the LORD.
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