What Does Joshua 22:13 Mean in the King James?
And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
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 Hebrew word for “sent” also carries the sense of release: the community reaches across distance by letting a representative go.
THE MEANING
A community meets the people at the other end of a divide by sending someone toward them. Here, a named priest carries that first movement of contact across the distance between the tribes.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ
vayyishleḥû
GROWS FROM
שלח
to send forth; to send away or release
The verb here comes from שלח, a root that joins sending forth with letting go. The envoy’s departure is therefore more than movement: the community releases someone from its own reach toward the people he is sent to meet.
ALSO GROWS
shillēaḥ: to send away, let go
שִׁלֵּחַ
This form makes the root’s sense of release explicit; sending Phinehas means letting him go toward another group.
shālûaḥ: sent, dispatched
שָׁלוּחַ
This form describes the person produced by the same sending action; Phinehas becomes the one who carries the community’s approach across the distance.
THE PATTERN
Sending carries a purpose across a divide through a person who goes in the sender’s place.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.THE THREAD
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.The Hebrew verb וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ in Joshua and אֶשְׁלָחֲךָ in Exodus both grow from שלח, “send forth.” In each verse, a person is sent across a divide to carry a purpose into a place the sender does not enter directly.
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