Joshua 15:39

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

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1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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וּבָצְקַ֖ת

Botsqath

H1218

“and · Bozkath”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1216

TWOT: None

Bozkath or Boscath = "rocky height" - a city in Judah in the lowlands toward the Philistines, home of Josiah's mother

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 וּבָצְקַ֖ת Bozkath H1218 — 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:

וּבָצְקַ֖ת Bozkath H1218

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּבָצְקַ֖ת Bozkath H1218 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

2 Kings 22:1

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 5 words from the Hebrew and 4 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 15:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 10:3 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 10:31–32 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
2 Kings 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
Joshua 12:11–12 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
2 Kings 14:19 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
2 Kings 18:14 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which you put on me will I bear. The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kings 19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Joshua 15:39 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

לָכִ֥ישׁ וּבָצְקַ֖ת וְעֶגְלֽוֹן

Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

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Greek LXX Joshua 15:39 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λαχης καί βασηδωθ καί ιδεαδαλεα

and Basedoth, and Ideadalea;

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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)

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

לָכִישׁ וּבָצְקַת וְעֶגְלוֹן:

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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 15:39 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 39. Lachish - and Eglon] See Clarke on Jos 10:3.

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

John Gill's Exposition

And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish. Cities of which we can give no account, not being mentioned elsewhere.

And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish. Cities of which we can give no account, not being mentioned elsewhere.

Joshua 15:41

jos 15:41

jos 15:41

jos 15:41And Gederoth,.... Gederoth is reckoned among the cities of the low country, and south of Judah, Ch2 28:18,

and Bethdagon; in it very probably was a temple of Dagon, which was a principal deity of the Philistines, Sa1 5:2; Jerom says (x) in his time was shown a large village called Capherdagon, between Diospolis and Jamnia; of Naamah, the same writer says nothing, only that it was a city of the tribe of Judah:

and Makkedah; see Jos 10:10; it was a royal city, Jos 12:16;

sixteen cities with their villages; and is the exact number of them, as before enumerated.

(x) De loc. Heb. fol. 89. F.

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 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Botsqath (“Bozkath”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Bozkath” (Botsqath) shape what this verse is saying?
The word “Bozkath” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
2 Kings 22:1 shares the word «Bozkath» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
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 makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.