What Does Judges 1:36 Mean in the King James?
And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
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 Amorite border is narrated as a climb: Hebrew marks both the ascent to Akrabbim and the land continuing upward with forms of the same root.
THE MEANING
This verse locates the Amorite border from the ascent to Akrabbim, by the rock, and then higher along the land. The words translated “going up” and “upward” both grow from עלה, so the boundary is traced as rising ground.
THE ROOT
מַעֲלֵה
maʿălēh
GROWS FROM
עלה
rise, ascend, go up
“going up / upward” in this verse is maʿălēh. The verse uses two forms of עלה: maʿălēh for the ascent at Akrabbim and maʿlāh for the rise beyond the rock. The same root appears in aliyah, an ascent, and olah, a burnt offering, literally, “that which goes up”, linking this terrain to a wider Hebrew word-family.
ALSO GROWS
maʿălēh: Ascent; a going up
מַעֲלֵה
It names the rise at Akrabbim where the described border begins.
maʿlāh: Upward; toward a higher place
מָעְלָה
It carries the border beyond the rock and higher along the land.
ʿōlāh: Burnt offering; “that which goes up”
עֹלָה
It shows the same root naming an upward movement beyond the physical terrain in this verse.
ʿaliyyāh: Ascent; going up
עֲלִיָּה
It is another noun from the same root that makes the verse’s repeated upward movement visible.
THE PATTERN
Scripture renders boundaries as located limits that give a territory its extent.
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;THE THREAD
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.The word translated “coast” here is גְּבוּל (gevul), meaning boundary; Psalm 104:9 uses the same Hebrew word for the limit set for the waters. One verse traces a border across rising land, while the other names the waters’ boundary.
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