Joshua 15:49

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir),

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Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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וְדַנָּ֥ה

Dannâh

H1837

“and · Dannah”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of uncertain derivation

TWOT: None

Dannah = "thou hast judged" or " judgement" - a town in the hill country of Judah, probably south or southwest of Hebron

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
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

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

וְדַנָּ֥ה Dannah H1837

First appearance in Scripture

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

וְדַנָּ֥ה Dannah H1837

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְקִרְיַת Kirjath-sepher H7158 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 nouns
1 pronoun

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וְקִרְיַת Kirjath-sepher H7158 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 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.

In the original languages it is 5 Hebrew tokens and 7 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 15:49 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 15:15 He went up there against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
Judges 1:11 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.)

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Joshua 15:49 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְדַנָּ֥ה וְקִרְיַת סַנָּ֖ה הִ֥יא דְבִֽר

and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir),

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Greek LXX Joshua 15:49 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ρεννα καί πόλις γράμμα οὗτος δαβιρ

and Renna and the city of Letters, this is Dabir;

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְדַנָה וְקִרְיַת סַנָה הִיא דְבִיר:

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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 15:49 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Which is also called Kirjath Sepher, verse 15.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 49. Kirjath-sannah] See Clarke on Jos 15:15.

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

John Gill's Exposition

Arab,.... Arab is the same Jerom (i) calls Ereb, and was in his time a village in the south, and was called Heromith:

and Dumah; Duma, Jerom says (k), was a large village in the south, also on the borders of Eleutheropolis, seventeen miles from it:

and Eshean, of which we have no account.

(i) De loc. Heb. fol. 91. B. (k) Ibid. fol. 90. K.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Debir is also called Kirjath-sepher, above, Jos 15:15. So this city had three names.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

49. Kirjath-sannah — The English reader will be assisted in his understanding of many of these names if he remembers that Kirjath means city. The word following completes the sense, as Kirjath-sannah, city of literature.

Debir — See on Jos_10:38.

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

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 5 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Dannâh (“Dannah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Dannâh carries the sense “Dannah.” 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?
This is the first place “Dannah” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does Joshua 15:15, which shares the word «Kirjath-sepher», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Kirjath-sepher” (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 Geneva Bible (1599) and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 7 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“Kirjath-sepher” occurs 2× in this single verse.