וּגְדֵר֕וֹת בֵּית דָּג֥וֹן וְנַעֲמָ֖ה וּמַקֵּדָ֑ה עָרִ֥ים שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן
and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 15:41
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 15:41 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.
English Translation
and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Gederoth, Beth Dagon and Naamah and Makkedah: 16 cities and their villages;
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah—sixteen cities, along with their villages.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah—sixteen cities, along with their villages.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteene cities with their villages.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities, and their villages.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities and their villages.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities and their villages.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, Makkedah. These were sixteen cities in number, including their villages.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Gederoth, Beth Dagon and Naamah and Makkedah: 16 cities and their villages;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities and their hamlets.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah—sixteen towns with their associated villages.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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וּגְדֵר֕וֹת
Gᵉdêrôwth
H1450
“and · Gederoth”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Gederoth = "walls"
- a town in the low country of Judah
- וּגְדֵר֕וֹת Gᵉdêrôwth H1450 “and · Gederoth” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- בֵּית Bêyth-Dâgôwn H1016 “Beth-dagon” Noun, Proper
- דָּג֥וֹן Bêyth-Dâgôwn H1016 “Beth-dagon” Noun, Proper
- וְנַעֲמָ֖ה Naʻămâh H5279 “and · Naamah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וּמַקֵּדָ֑ה Maqqêdâh H4719 “and · Makkedah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- עָרִ֥ים ʻîyr H5892 “cities” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- שֵׁשׁ shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן châtsêr H2691 “and · courts · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural
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 →
- 9
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וּגְדֵר֕וֹת Gederoth H1450 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּגְדֵר֕וֹת Gederoth H1450 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 7 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בֵּית Beth-dagon H1016 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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
4Topical passages linked to Joshua 15:41 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 10:21 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 10:10 Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.
- Joshua 10:28 Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 12:16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί γεδδωρ καί βαγαδιηλ καί νωμαν καί μακηδαν πόλις δέκα-ἕξ καί ὁ κώμη αὐτός
and Geddor, and Bagadiel, and Noman, and Machedan: sixteen cities, and their villages;
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)
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.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וּגְדֵרוֹת בֵּית דָגוֹן וְנַעֲמָה וּמַקֵדָה קִרְוִין שִׁית עַסְרֵי וּפַצְחֵיהֶן:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gᵉdêrôwth (“Gederoth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Gederoth” (Gᵉdêrôwth) shape what this verse is saying?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does 2 Chronicles 28:18, which shares the word «Gederoth», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “Beth-dagon” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “Beth-dagon” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 15:41 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 →
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.