Ezekiel 48:4

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

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נַפְתָּלִ֗י

Naphtâlîy

H5321

“Naphtali”

Noun, Proper

Appears 51× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 30:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6617

TWOT: None

Naphtali = "wrestling" - the 5th son of Jacob and the 2nd by Bilhah the handmaid of Rachel (noun proper masculine) - the tribe descended from Naphtali the son of Jacob (noun proper masculine) - the territory assigned to the tribe of Naphtali (noun proper locative)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

10: words
9: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נַפְתָּלִ֗י Naphtali H5321 occurs in 47 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns
1 adjective
2 prepositions

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מִפְּאַ֥ת corner H6285 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 48:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 17:1–11 [This] was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
Joshua 13:29–31 Moses gave [inheritance] to the half-tribe of Manasseh: and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
Genesis 30:22–24 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis 41:51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."
Genesis 48:5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
Genesis 48:14–20 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 48:4 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַ֣ל גְּב֣וּל נַפְתָּלִ֗י מִפְּאַ֥ת קָדִ֛מָה עַד פְּאַת יָ֖מָּה מְנַשֶּׁ֥ה אֶחָֽד

By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 48:4 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀπό ὁ ὅριον νεφθαλι ἀπό ὁ πρός ἀνατολή ἕως ὁ πρός θάλασσα μανασσή εἷς

And from the borders of Nephthalim, from the east as far as the west coasts, for Manasse, one.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְעַל תְּחוּם נַפְתָּלִי מֵרוּחַ מַדִינְחָא עַד רוּחַ מַעֲרָבָא מְנַשֶׁה חָד:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 48:4 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a [portion for] Manasseh.

Ver. 4. A portion for Manasseh.] Which they do not, of their own accord, and as they see good, seize upon, but take their share set them out of the divine sentence.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Manasseh--The intercourse and unity between the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, and the nine and a half west of it, had been much kept up by the splitting of Manasseh, causing the visits of kinsmen one to the other from both sides of the Jordan. There shall be no need for this in the new order of things.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Gill's Exposition

And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim. Close to the tribe of Manasseh, and the inheritance of it, which is no more reckoned a half, but a whole tribe, and has an inheritance equal to the rest, lay the tribe of Ephraim, and the inheritance assigned to that; even to such believers as are fruitful in grace and good works. Joseph is not mentioned, as in Eze 47:13, the two portions there given him being here allotted to his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

, the two portions there given him being here allotted to his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Ezekiel 48:6

eze 48:6

eze 48:6

eze 48:6And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. Who, through his sin, lost his birthright; but now, his sin being forgiven and forgotten, has a portion assigned him upon the border of Ephraim, and next to the tribe of Judah; when in Moses and Joshua's time it lay on the other side Jordan: this points to such persons that shall have their lot and portion in spiritual things; that "see the Son", that look to Christ alone for righteousness, peace, pardon, and eternal life.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

one portion

Translate as you translated "one portion of land" in Ezekiel 48:1.

from the east side to the west

See how you translated this in Ezekiel 48:3.

translationWords

Naphtali

Manasseh

Ephraim

Reuben

Judah

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Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Naphtâlîy (“Naphtali”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Naphtali” (Naphtâlîy) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 30:8, which shares the word «Naphtali», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “corner” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“corner” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.