What Does Numbers 21:13 Mean in the King James?
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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 river is both a threshold and a dividing line: the camp stands beyond it while the verse still names it as the boundary between two peoples.
THE MEANING
You are shown a place where movement and distinction coexist: the people reach the far side of the Arnon, and the border between Moab and the Amorites remains clearly named. A boundary can mark passage while still defining where one territory ends and another begins.
THE ROOT
גְּבוּל
gevul
GROWS FROM
גבל
To bound or set a limit.
The Hebrew word can name both a border and the territory it defines. Here the Arnon is more than a landmark: it marks Moab’s limit between Moab and the Amorites, making the distinction between the lands visible even as the people move to the river’s far side.
ALSO GROWS
gevul: Border, boundary, or territory.
גְּבוּל
The verse uses this word to identify the Arnon as Moab’s territorial limit.
gevulot: Borders or boundaries.
גְּבוּלוֹת
This plural form shows the same root marking the limits that define multiple territories.
THE PATTERN
Boundaries make distinct territories legible within a shared landscape.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.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;When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.THE THREAD
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.Deuteronomy uses the same Hebrew root, גבל, for the bounds set for peoples. That connection widens this verse: the Arnon is one concrete boundary that makes distinct territories legible.
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