What Does Joshua 5:12 Mean in the King James?
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
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 manna stops as the land’s produce begins to feed them: one source ends, but nourishment continues.
THE MEANING
A familiar source can stop while nourishment continues through what the ground yields. The verse holds both realities together: the manna ceases, and the land’s produce becomes food.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The end of one source means all nourishment is over.
THE ROOT
שָׁבַת
shavat
GROWS FROM
שבת
To cease, desist, or rest.
English “ceased” can sound like pure deprivation, while שָׁבַת (shavat, cease or rest) also appears in the language of Sabbath. Here, the immediate contrast is concrete: the manna stops, and the land’s yield becomes food.
ALSO GROWS
shabbat: Sabbath, a day of cessation and rest.
שַׁבָּת
The same root holds stopping and rest together, giving “ceased” a range beyond simple disappearance.
shabbaton: A Sabbath rest or sabbatical observance.
שַׁבָּתוֹן
This related form echoes cessation as a marked pause, while the verse shows food continuing through another source.
תְּבוּאָה
tevu’ah
GROWS FROM
בוא
To come or enter.
The Hebrew word for the land’s “fruit” is תְּבוּאָה (tevu’ah, produce or yield), from בוא (bo’, come or enter). The word pictures what comes in from the land, so the verse moves from one nourishment stopping to another arriving.
ALSO GROWS
bo’: To come or enter.
בּוֹא
The root verb gives the land’s produce the sense of what comes in.
hevi’: To bring, cause to come.
הֵבִיא
This causative form shares the root’s movement of bringing something into reach, echoing the yield that supplies food.
THE PATTERN
Nourishment reaches life through provision suited to its place and time.
Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;Give us this day our daily bread.THE THREAD
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.Genesis uses שבת (shavat, cease or rest) for God’s rest; Joshua uses the same root for the manna’s cessation. The shared root brings cessation and rest into one lexical field, while Joshua’s verse shows food continuing through the land’s yield.
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