Joshua 13:11

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 13:11 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and all of Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan unto Salekah,

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salecah;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salecah;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Gilead, and the borders of the Geshurites and of the Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, with all Bashan vnto Salcah:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all mount Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite, and of the Maachathite, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite, and of the Maachathite, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, all Bashan to Salekah;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and all of Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan unto Salekah,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and the whole of Bashan to Salcah;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah;
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    In addition it included Gilead, the land of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Gilead, and the land of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

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סַלְכָֽה
Çalkâh
H5548
“Salcah”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to walk

TWOT: None

Salcah or Salchah = "migration" - a town or district at the extreme eastern limit of Bashan and allocated to the tribe of Gad; modern 'Sulkhad' which is 56 miles
  1. וְהַגִּלְעָ֞ד Gilʻâd H1568 “and · the · Gilead” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
  2. וּגְב֧וּל gᵉbûwl H1366 “and · border of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  3. הַגְּשׁוּרִ֣י Gᵉshûwrîy H1651 “the · Geshurite” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֗י Maʻăkâthîy H4602 “and · the · Maachathite” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וְכֹ֨ל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. הַ֥ר har H2022 “mountain of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. חֶרְמ֛וֹן Chermôwn H2768 “Hermon” Noun, Proper
  8. וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. הַבָּשָׁ֖ן Bâshân H1316 “the · Bashan” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
  10. עַד ʻad H5704 “until” Preposition

About this verse

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11
words
10
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is סַלְכָֽה Salcah H5548 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

סַלְכָֽה Salcah H5548 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 10 nouns
  • 1 preposition

Repetition

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

  • וְכֹ֨ל all H3605 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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 11 Hebrew tokens and 19 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

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Topical passages linked to Joshua 13:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 4:47–48 They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
  • Joshua 12:2–5 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [the city that is in] the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
  • 1 Chronicles 2:23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 27 words vs World English Bible 19. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Joshua 13:11 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהַגִּלְעָ֞ד וּגְב֧וּל הַגְּשׁוּרִ֣י וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֗י וְכֹ֨ל הַ֥ר חֶרְמ֛וֹן וְכָל הַבָּשָׁ֖ן עַד סַלְכָֽה

and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 13:11 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ γαλααδῖτις καί ὁ ὅριον γεσιρι καί ὁ μαχατι πᾶς ὄρος αερμων καί πᾶς ὁ βασανῖτις ἕως σελχα

and the region of Galaad, and the borders of the Gesirites and the Machatites, the whole mount of Aermon, and all the land of Basan to Acha.

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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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְאַרְעָא גִלְעָד וּתְחוּם גְשׁוּרָאָה וַאֲפִיקֵירוֹס וְכָל טוּרָא דְחֶרְמוֹן וְכָל מַתְנָן עַד סַלְכָה:

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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 13:11 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Jos 13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

Ver. 11. And the border of the Geshurites.] Due to Israel, but yet detained from them. {Jos 13:13}

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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 11. Border of the Geshurites] See Clarke on Jos 12:5.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Gilead,.... The land of Gilead, which was part of the kingdom of Og, half of which was given to Reuben, and the other half to Gad:

and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites; of which see Deu 3:14,

and all Mount Hermon; called also Sirion, Shenir, and Sion, Deu 3:9,

and all Bashan unto Salcah; another part of the dominions of Og, Deu 3:10.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Maachathites; whose land God had given to the Israelites without Jordan, though they had not yet used the gift of God, nor taken possession of it, as is noted, Jos 13:13.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Geshurltes and Maachathites. See note on Jos_12:5, of which this passage is little else but a repetition.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And Maacathites - Whose land God had given to the Israelites without Jordan, though they had not yet used the gift of God, nor taken possession of it, as is noted, ver. 13.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Çalkâh (“Salcah”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Salcah” (Çalkâh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Deuteronomy 3:10 shares the word «Salcah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “all” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
  5. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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