What Does Numbers 34:3 Mean in the King James?
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea 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 south edge is made legible by the neighboring wilderness, Edom, and the Salt Sea.
THE MEANING
The verse gives the inheritance a locatable southern edge, running from the wilderness of Zin beside Edom to the Salt Sea’s eastern reach. Here, belonging takes shape through the places the land touches.
THE ROOT
גְּבוּל
gevul
GROWS FROM
גבל
To set a boundary; to mark off.
The same Hebrew word can mean a boundary or the territory it encloses, joining the edge to the space held within it. English can make a border sound like a bare line; this root carries both the line and the land it defines.
ALSO GROWS
gābal: To border or set a boundary.
גָּבַל
The verb shows that a boundary is a marked edge, not merely an unnamed limit.
gevul: Boundary, territory, or region.
גְּבוּל
The noun holds the border and the bounded land together, illuminating how this verse defines a region by its southern edge.
THE PATTERN
An inheritance becomes locatable through named boundaries that place it in relation to the land around it.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.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 shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.Numbers uses גְּבוּל (gevul), “boundary,” from גבל (g-b-l), “to set a boundary.” Deuteronomy uses the same root for the landmark and for setting it, showing how a marked edge defines what is held within.
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