What Does Numbers 34:7 Mean in the King James?
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
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 verse turns “north” from an abstract direction into a boundary you can trace from sea to mountain.
THE MEANING
Your north boundary is located from the Great Sea toward Mount Hor. Named landmarks make the line traceable and give the territory a definite extent.
THE ROOT
גְּבוּל
gevul
GROWS FROM
גבל
To border or set a boundary.
The Hebrew word can mean both a boundary and the territory it bounds. The line and the defined extent belong together: the border makes the place recognizable.
ALSO GROWS
gābal: To bound or border.
גָּבַל
This verb shows the action behind the boundary: marking the extent of a place.
gevulot: Boundaries or borders.
גְּבוּלוֹת
The plural form carries the same idea of distinct, traceable limits.
צָפוֹן
tsafon
GROWS FROM
צפן
To hide, store up, or treasure.
The Hebrew word for north is connected with a root meaning to hide or store away. The compass direction remains clear, while the root adds the sense of a concealed or far side.
ALSO GROWS
tsaphan: To hide, store up, or treasure.
צָפַן
This is the verb behind the word for north, revealing an association with what is kept out of sight.
tsafun: Hidden, concealed, or treasured.
צָפוּן
This related form echoes the hiddenness carried by the root behind “north.”
THE PATTERN
A place’s extent becomes recognizable when its boundary is anchored to named landmarks.
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.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 Hebrew word translated “bound” shares the root גבל with the “border” in Numbers. Numbers locates the boundary by landmarks; the Psalm uses the same word-family for a limit that marks how far the sea reaches.
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