What Does Joshua 19:7 Mean in the King James?

Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

Joshua 19:7 · KJV

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

Ain is written with the same Hebrew word that means both “eye” and “spring,” so seeing and source sit inside one name.

THE MEANING

Your world is made of distinct places and the communities gathered around them. Ain’s Hebrew name also means “eye” and “spring,” placing seeing and source within one landscape.

THE ROOT

עַיִן

ʿayin

GROWS FROM

עין

⁨עין⁩ names an eye and, in another attested sense, a spring or fountain; the senses share the same consonantal form, though their historical relationship is uncertain.

Ain is written ⁨עין⁩, which also means “eye” and “spring” in biblical Hebrew. Their relationship as senses is uncertain, but their shared form lets this place-name carry both images: a point of seeing and a source of water.

ALSO GROWS

ʿayin: Eye

עַיִן

The place-name has the same form as the Hebrew word for “eye,” bringing its perception-sense alongside its spring-sense.

maʿyan: Spring, fountain

מַעְיָן

This related word for a spring preserves the source-sense associated with ⁨עין⁩.

THE PATTERN

Hebrew ⁨עין⁩ can name both an eye and a spring, holding sight and water-source in one word.

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:7 · KJVThe Hebrew word translated “fountain” is ⁨עין⁩, the same form as Ain, naming water as a source.

A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

Deuteronomy 11:12 · KJVThe same Hebrew word appears as “eyes,” showing the perception-sense of ⁨עין⁩.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

Psalm 34:15 · KJVHere ⁨עין⁩ again names eyes, carrying the word’s perception-sense into poetry.

THE THREAD

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:7 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “fountain” here is ⁨עין⁩, the same written form as the name Ain. That gives the place-name an available source-sense: a spring of water.

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