Joshua 15:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Hazar Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth Pelet,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
3 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
Septuagint runs shorter here — compare

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וְחֶשְׁמ֖וֹן

Cheshmôwn

H2829

“and · Heshmon”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H2831

TWOT: None

Heshmon = "rich soil" - a town in the extreme south of Judah; site uncertain

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 →

5: words
3: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

וְחֶשְׁמ֖וֹן Heshmon H2829

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-gaddah H2693
וְחֶשְׁמ֖וֹן Heshmon H2829
וּבֵ֥ית Beth-palet H1046

Grammatical profile

5 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-gaddah H2693 ×2
וּבֵ֥ית Beth-palet H1046 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 8 words from the Hebrew and 4 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter 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 5 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 15:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Nehemiah 11:26 and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth Pelet,

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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 shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 4 words vs World English Bible 8. 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 15:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַחֲצַ֥ר גַּדָּ֛ה וְחֶשְׁמ֖וֹן וּבֵ֥ית פָּֽלֶט

and Hazar Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth Pelet,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 15:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί σερι καί βαιφαλαδ

and Seri, and Baephalath,

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)

וַחֲצַר גַדָה וְחֶשְׁמוֹן וּבֵית פָּלֵט:

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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 15:27 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 →

John Gill's Exposition

And Hazarshual,.... The first of these seems to have its name from an haunt of foxes here, and was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:3; and is mentioned as here with Beersheba, Ch1 4:28 Neh 11:27,

and Beersheba was a city well known in the extreme border of the land of Canaan southward; hence the phrase "from Dan to Beersheba", Jdg 20:1, of which Jerom says (h), Bersabee, in the tribe of Judah or Simeon, is at this day a large village, twenty miles from Hebron to the south, in which there is a Roman garrison; and from hence the borders of the land of Judea begin, and go on to Dan, which is by Paneas:

and Bizjothjah, of which mention is made elsewhere.

(h) lbid. fol. 89. E. F.

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Lesson kit

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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 5 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Cheshmôwn (“Heshmon”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Cheshmôwn carries the sense “Heshmon.” How does it shape the verse?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
3 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does Nehemiah 11:26, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Hazar-gaddah” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 4 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“Hazar-gaddah” occurs 2× in this single verse.