What Does Joshua 21:28 Mean in the King James?
And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,
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
A town’s surrounding land is named as part of its dwelling, not as leftover space beyond it.
THE MEANING
Kishon and Dabareh are named together with the open land around them, so a dwelling-place includes space beyond its walls. Issachar’s name carries the language of wages and reward, placing an image of received provision beside the land apportioned here.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A town is only its walls, and the land outside them is incidental.
THE ROOT
יִשָּׂשכָר
Yissachar
GROWS FROM
שכר
s-k-r
Hire, wages, reward; the naming story links Issachar with Leah’s “hire.”
Genesis 30:18 links Issachar’s name to Leah’s words “my hire.” Here that name stands above towns apportioned with their surrounding lands, letting its language of reward resonate beside a concrete share of dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
sakar: Wages, hire, reward
שָׂכָר
Genesis 30:18 uses this word in Leah’s phrase “my hire,” linking the name to received recompense.
sakar: To hire or pay wages
שָׂכַר
This verb shares the name’s root, carrying the same exchange of work and recompense.
מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ
migrasheha
GROWS FROM
גרש
g-r-sh
Drive out, expel; מִגְרָשׁ (migrash) means the open land around a settlement.
The word rendered “suburbs” also names open land around a town, counted alongside the town itself. Its root connects it with the idea of being driven outward, so the named allotment reaches beyond the settlement’s center.
ALSO GROWS
migrash: Open common land around a settlement
מִגְרָשׁ
This is the singular form behind the verse’s “suburbs”; the surrounding land accompanies the town.
garash: Drive away, expel
גָּרַשׁ
This verb shares the root, revealing the outward edge carried in the word for land around a settlement.
THE PATTERN
Those who serve a community’s sacred life receive dwelling or sustenance from its shared portion.
The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?THE THREAD
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.Genesis 30:18 ties Issachar’s name to Leah’s “my hire,” from שכר (sakar), wages or reward. Here the same name heads a line about towns and their surrounding lands, bringing that language of recompense alongside a concrete allotment.
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