Joshua 12:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

World English Bible · Public Domain

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חֶבְר֖וֹן

Chebrôwn

H2275

“Hebron”

Noun, Proper

Appears 71× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 13:18

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2267

TWOT: 598i

Hebron = "association" - a city in south Judah approx 20 south of Jerusalem and approx 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of Beersheba and near where Abraham built an altar (noun proper locative) - the 3rd son of Kohath and grandson of Levi (noun proper masculine) - a descendant of Caleb (noun proper masculine)

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 →

6: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

4 nouns
2 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מֶ֤לֶךְ king H4428 ×2
אֶחָ֔ד one H259 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 8 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 4 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 Joshua 12:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 10:23 They did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.
Joshua 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Joshua 10:36–37 Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it:

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Joshua 12:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מֶ֤לֶךְ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֨ם֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ חֶבְר֖וֹן אֶחָֽד

the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 12:10 Septuagint · lemma form

βασιλεύς ἰερουσαλήμ βασιλεύς χεβρων

the king of Jerusalem, the king of Chebron,

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)

מַלְכָּא דִירוּשְׁלֵם חָד מַלְכָּא דְחֶבְרוֹן 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 Joshua 12:10 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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John Gill's Exposition

The king of Jerusalem, one,.... Whose name was Adonizedek, and was one of the five kings taken and hanged, Jos 10:1,

the king of Hebron, one; another of the five kings, whose name was Hoham, Jos 10:3.

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

Lesson kit

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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chebrôwn (“Hebron”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Hebron” (Chebrôwn) shape what this verse is saying?
Joshua 10:23 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“king” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 4 Greek words.
“king” occurs 2× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.