Joshua 15:56

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

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Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וְיָקְדְעָ֖ם

Yoqdᵉʻâm

H3347

“and · Jokdeam”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3344 and H5971

TWOT: None

Jokdeam = "burning of a people" - a city in the mountains of southern Judah; apparently south 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 →

3: words
3: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

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

וְיָקְדְעָ֖ם Jokdeam H3347

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וְיִזְרְעֶ֥אל Jezreel H3157
וְיָקְדְעָ֖ם Jokdeam H3347

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְזָנֽוֹחַ Zanoah H2182 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 6 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Joshua 15:56 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְיִזְרְעֶ֥אל וְיָקְדְעָ֖ם וְזָנֽוֹחַ

and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 15:56 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ιαριηλ καί ιαρικαμ καί ζακαναϊμ

and Jariel, and Aricam, and Zacanaim,

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)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְיִזְרְעֶאל וְיָקְדְעָם וְזָנוֹחַ:

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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 15:56 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

15:56 This Jezreel in Judah was not the northern Jezreel. This city was the hometown of Ahinoam, David’s wife and the mother of his eldest son, Amnon (2 Sam 3:2).

John Gill's Exposition

And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon,.... Of these cities we have no account elsewhere; only mention is made of Eltekeh, in the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:44,

six cities with their villages; these were all in the mountainous part of Judea, as were the two following.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

56. Jezreel cannot be located. It was the country of Ahinoam. 1Sa_25:43. It must not be confounded with the city in the plain of Esdraelon. Jos_15:57.

Gibeah, meaning hill, is identified by Robinson with Jebah, a village upon a detached hill in Wady-el-Mu-surr, ten miles southwest of Jerusalem.

Timnah is a different place from that near to Adullam, (Jos_15:10; Jos_15:35,) though some have confounded them.

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

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

Discussion questions

What does “Jokdeam” (Yoqdᵉʻâm) contribute to the verse as a whole?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does Joshua 15:34, which shares the word «Zanoah», read alongside this verse?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.