Joshua 19:44

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,

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3 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וְאֶלְתְּקֵ֥ה

ʼEltᵉqêʼ

H514

“and · Eltekeh”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of uncertain derivation

TWOT: None

Eltekeh = "let God spue thee out" - Levitical city in the tribe of Dan, between Ekron and Timna

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 וְאֶלְתְּקֵ֥ה Eltekeh H514 — 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:

וְאֶלְתְּקֵ֥ה Eltekeh H514
וְגִבְּת֖וֹן Gibbethon H1405
וּבַעֲלָֽת Baalath H1191

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְאֶלְתְּקֵ֥ה Eltekeh H514 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Joshua 21:23

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Joshua 19:44 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 21:23 Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,
1 Kings 9:18 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
1 Kings 15:27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
1 Kings 16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Joshua 19:44 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶלְתְּקֵ֥ה וְגִבְּת֖וֹן וּבַעֲלָֽת

and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 19:44 Septuagint · lemma form

καί αλκαθα καί βεγεθων καί γεβεελαν

and Alcatha, and Begethon, and Gebeelan,

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)

וְאֶלְתְּקֵה וְגִבְּתוֹן וּבַעֲלָת:

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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 19:44 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

44. Eltekeh, and Gibbethon] occur as Levitical cities in ch. Jos_21:23. The sites are not identified; Baalath may be Deir Balût. It was fortified by Solomon (1Ki_9:18), and is placed by Josephus near Gezer. See Jos. Ant. viii. 6. 1.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Jehud,.... Of Jehud no mention is made elsewhere:

and Beneberak signifies sons of lightning; see Mar 3:17. Jerom (x) speaks of tills as the name of two places, Bane in the tribe of Dan, and Barach in the same tribe, and which was in his day near Azotus. This place was famous in later times among the Jews for being a place where one of their noted Rabbins, R. Akiba, abode and taught for some time (y):

and Gathrimmon was in Jerom's (z) time a very large village, twelve miles from Diospolis, or Lydda, as you go from Eleutheropolis to it; it was a city given to the Levites, Jos 21:24.

(x) De loc. Heb. fol. 89. H. (y) T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 32. 2. (z) De loc. Heb. fol. 92. C.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Elthece, or Elthecon of Juda, given to the Levites. All the three tribes might dwell in it.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

Gibbethon. A Levitical city, as was also Eltekeh. (see Jos_21:23) It was the same city as that mentioned as "belonging to the Philistines" in 1Ki_15:27 1Ki_16:15, 1Ki_16:17.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — 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 ʼEltᵉqêʼ (“Eltekeh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Eltekeh” (ʼEltᵉqêʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
3 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Joshua 21:23 shares the word «Eltekeh» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.