What Does Numbers 34:11 Mean in the King James?
And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
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 KJV’s “go down” and “descend” are one repeated Hebrew verb, so the boundary reads as a single continuous downward line.
THE MEANING
A place takes shape through edges that can be traced. Here the boundary descends from named landmarks toward the eastern side of the Sea of Chinnereth, giving the region a definite contour.
THE ROOT
יָרַד
yarad
GROWS FROM
ירד
y-r-d
To descend, go down.
The Hebrew uses this verb twice for the boundary’s downward course, while the KJV varies the English as “go down” and “descend.” The repeated root makes one continuous movement visible; ירידה (yeridah, “descent”) and יַרְדֵּן (Yarden, “Jordan,” the descending river) carry the same downward sense into other words.
ALSO GROWS
yeridah: Descent; a going down.
יְרִידָה
It names the movement repeated in the boundary’s route.
Yarden: Jordan, the river-name associated with descending.
יַרְדֵּן
The name of a river echoes the same downward motion that shapes this border.
THE PATTERN
A place of inheritance becomes legible through boundaries traced against actual landmarks.
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.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
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.Joshua names Jordan as the eastern border, making explicit the kind of landmark Numbers traces the boundary toward. Both passages use the גבול (gebul, “border”) word-family, joining a mapped edge to the shape of an inheritance.
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