Joshua 15:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,

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Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וּבִזְיוֹתְיָֽה

bizyôwthᵉyâh

H964

“and · Bizjothjah”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H959 and H3050

TWOT: None

Bizjothjah = "contempt of Jehovah" - a town in southern Judah near Beersheba

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:

וּבִזְיוֹתְיָֽה Bizjothjah H964

First appearance in Scripture

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

וַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-shual H2705
וּבִזְיוֹתְיָֽה Bizjothjah H964

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-shual H2705 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 nouns
1 adjective

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַחֲצַ֥ר Hazar-shual H2705 ×2
וּבְאֵ֥ר Beer-sheba H884 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 10 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Joshua 15:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 26:33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
Genesis 21:14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:31–33 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
Joshua 19:2–3 They had for their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
1 Chronicles 4:28 They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

Hebrew Joshua 15:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַחֲצַ֥ר שׁוּעָ֛ל וּבְאֵ֥ר שֶׁ֖בַע וּבִזְיוֹתְיָֽה

and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 15:28 Septuagint · lemma form

καί χολασεωλα καί βηρσαβεε καί ὁ κώμη αὐτός καί ὁ ἔπαυλις αὐτός

and Cholaseola, and Beersabee; and their villages, and their hamlets,

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 שׁוּעָל וּבְאֵר שֶׁבַע וּבִזְיוֹתְיָה:

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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 15:28 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 28. Beer-sheba] A city, famous in the book of Genesis as the residence of the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, Ge 22:19; Ge 28:10; Ge 46:1. See Clarke on Ge 21:31. It lay on the way between Canaan and Egypt, about forty miles from Jerusalem.

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

John Gill's Exposition

Baalah,.... Baalah was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:3; for Baalah is the same with Balah there, as it is with Bilba, Ch1 4:29; though according to the Jerusalem Talmud (i) it is the same with Baalah, given to the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:44; and was one of those places whose houses were in Judah and their fields in Dan:

and Azem was also given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:3; it is the same with Ezem, Ch1 4:29,

and Iim, of which we read nowhere else.

(i) Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 18. 3.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Bersabee, noted for the residence of Abraham, &c. It is attributed to Simeon, (chap. xix. 2,) with some other of these towns, as the two tribes lived intermixed, and some changes might be made in the first regulation, to bring things to a greater equality, and as circumstances might require.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

28. Beer-sheba — This spot, so much associated with patriarchal history, has been identified with the modern Bir-es-Seba, some thirty miles southwest of Hebron. It afterwards became famous as the southern limit of the Holy Land, in the formula “From Dan to Beer-sheba.” For the origin of the name and history see at Gen_21:31; Gen_26:33. Two deep wells are still found there, and a number of smaller ones. The largest well is twelve and a half feet in diameter, and about fifty in depth.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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 bizyôwthᵉyâh (“Bizjothjah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Bizjothjah” (bizyôwthᵉyâh) shape what this verse is saying?
This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Joshua 19:3 shares the word «Hazar-shual» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Hazar-shual” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“Hazar-shual” occurs 2× in this single verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.