וְגֹ֥שֶׁן וְחֹלֹ֖ן וְגִלֹ֑ה עָרִ֥ים אַֽחַת עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 15:51
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 15:51 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 Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven 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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World English Bible Public Domain
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Goshen and Holon and Giloh: 11 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 Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—eleven cities, along with their villages.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—eleven cities, along with their villages.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleuen cities with their villages,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and their villages.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities and their villages.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities and their villages.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Goshen, Holon, and Giloh. These were eleven cities, including their villages.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Goshen and Holon and Giloh: 11 cities and their villages;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities and their hamlets.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—eleven towns with their associated villages.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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וְגִלֹ֑ה
Gilôh
H1542
“and · Giloh”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Giloh = "exile"
- a city in the mountains of Judah, home town of Ahithophel
- וְגֹ֥שֶׁן Gôshen H1657 “and · Goshen” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְחֹלֹ֖ן Chôlôwn H2473 “and · Holon” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְגִלֹ֑ה Gilôh H1542 “and · Giloh” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- עָרִ֥ים ʻîyr H5892 “cities” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- אַֽחַת ʼechâd H259 “one” 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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְגִלֹ֑ה Giloh H1542 — 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
וְגִלֹ֑ה Giloh H1542 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 12 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
3Topical passages linked to Joshua 15:51 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 10:41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.
- Joshua 11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
- 2 Samuel 15:12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
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 γοσομ καί χαλου καί χαννα πόλις ἕνδεκα καί ὁ κώμη αὐτός
and Gosom, and Chalu, and Channa, and Gelom: eleven 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)
וְגֹשֶׁן וְחֹלֹן וְגִלֹה קִרְוִין חֲדָא 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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gilôh (“Giloh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Giloh” (Gilôh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 2 Samuel 15:12 shares the word «Giloh» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 15:51 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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
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
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.