Joshua 15:29

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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וְעִיִּ֖ים

ʻÎyîym

H5864

“and · Iim”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 33:45

Full BDB Definition

Origin: pl. of H5856

TWOT: contraction of 05863

Iim = "ruins" - a station of Israel in the wilderness on the southeast side of Moab - a town in Judah

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 →

3: words
3: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְעִיִּ֖ים Iim H5864 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וָעָֽצֶם Azem H6107

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְעִיִּ֖ים Iim H5864 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Numbers 33:45

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 5 words from the Hebrew and 5 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 3 Hebrew tokens and 5 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 15:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 15:9–11 and the border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim);
Joshua 19:3 and Hazar Shual, and Balah, and Ezem,
1 Chronicles 4:29 and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Joshua 15:29 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בַּעֲלָ֥ה וְעִיִּ֖ים וָעָֽצֶם

Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 15:29 Septuagint · lemma form

βαλα καί βακωκ καί ασομ

Bala and Bacoc, and Asom,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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)

בַּעֲלָה וְעִיִים וָעָצֶם:

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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 15:29 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

29. Baalah] A fourth group is added of thirteen places which lay to the west and south-west:—

(1) Baalah, called Balah (ch. Jos_19:3) and Bilhah (1Ch_4:29); (2) Iim, unknown; (3) Azem = “firmness” or “strength” (ch. Jos_19:3); (4) Eltolad = Tolad (1Ch_4:29), unknown; (5) Chesil = Bethul (Jos_19:4) = Bethuel (1Ch_4:30); (6) Hormah, or Zephath (comp. Jos_12:14); (7) Ziklag = “wilderness of destruction” (Gesenius), which afterwards came into the possession of Achish, king of Gath, who presented it to David (1Sa_27:6), and was burnt by the Amalekites (1Sa_30:1); (8) Madmannah = possibly to el-Minyây, south of Gaza, on the route of the pilgrims during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; (9) Sansannah, unknown; (10) Lebaoth = Beth-lebaoth (Jos_19:6; 1Ch_4:31), perhaps Lebhem, eight hours south of Gaza; (11) Shilhim = el-Scheriat, about midway between Gaza and Beer-sheba; (12) Ain; (13) Rimmon; in ch. Jos_19:7, 1Ch_4:32, these are treated as one place, and comp. Neh_11:29. Rimmon has been supposed to be represented by Um er-Rumamim, about three hours north of Beersheba.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Eltolad,.... The first of these cities is called Tolad, Ch1 4:29,

and Chesil seems to be the same with Bethul and Bethuel, Jos 19:4 Ch1 4:30; and here the Greek version calls it Baithel:

and Hormah is the same with Zephath, Jdg 1:17. All these three cities were given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:4.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

Iim. The Alexandrian version of LXX has Aueim here. If this be correct, the city was named after the Avim. (see note on Jos_13:4) If we take the reading in the text we must interpret by ruins. (see note on Ai, Jos_7:2)

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Connecting Statement:

The list of cities continues. (See: How to Translate Names)

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Lesson kit

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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻÎyîym (“Iim”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Iim” (ʻÎyîym) contribute to the verse as a whole?
This is the first place “Azem” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does Numbers 33:45, which shares the word «Iim», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 3 Hebrew ↔ 5 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.