What Does Numbers 34:29 Mean in the King James?
These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
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 inheritance becomes livable when a portion is actually assigned.
THE MEANING
A shared inheritance takes shape through a concrete act of apportioning, so that each person has a place within the whole. The verse speaks now to the movement from a promise held in the abstract to a portion that can be inhabited among a people.
THE ROOT
לְנַחֵל
lenachel
GROWS FROM
נחל
n-ḥ-l
To inherit or assign as an inherited possession.
“divide the inheritance” in this verse is lenachel. The Hebrew verb holds the act and its result in one word-family: the people are being placed into an inheritable share. Alongside the KJV’s emphasis on division, the root carries the movement by which a portion becomes someone’s possession.
ALSO GROWS
naḥalah: Inheritance, possession, or allotted portion.
נַחֲלָה
This noun names the share that the verse’s action makes concrete.
hinḥîl: To cause someone to inherit; to give as an inheritance.
הִנְחִיל
This related form makes the transfer visible: the work is not merely separating land, but bringing people into possession.
THE PATTERN
An inheritance becomes tangible when an entrusted act assigns a place within the shared whole.
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.THE THREAD
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.The phrase “cause Israel to inherit” uses the same נחל root, making the connection between allocation and possession clear. Numbers 34:29 shows that this work passes through people entrusted to assign the portion.
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