וּבֵ֥ית לְבָא֖וֹת וְשָֽׁרוּחֶ֑ן עָרִ֥ים שְׁלֹשׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן
and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 19:6
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 19:6 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 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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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 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
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King James Version Public Domain
And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Beth Lebaoth and Sharuhen: 13 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 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities, along with their villages.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities, along with their villages.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteene cities with their villages.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen: thirteen cities, and their villages.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Beth-Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Beth-Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen. These were thirteen cities, including their villages.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Beth Lebaoth and Sharuhen: 13 cities and their villages;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities and their hamlets;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sheruhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen towns with their associated villages.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
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וְשָֽׁרוּחֶ֑ן
Shârûwchen
H8287
“and · Sharuhen”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Sharuhen = "refuge of grace"
- a city in Judah allotted to Simeon
- וּבֵ֥ית Bêyth Lᵉbâʼôwth H1034 “and · Beth-lebaoth” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- לְבָא֖וֹת Bêyth Lᵉbâʼôwth H1034 “Beth-lebaoth” Noun, Proper
- וְשָֽׁרוּחֶ֑ן Shârûwchen H8287 “and · Sharuhen” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- עָרִ֥ים ʻîyr H5892 “cities” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- שְׁלֹשׁ shâlôwsh H7969 “three” 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
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- וְשָֽׁרוּחֶ֑ן Sharuhen H8287
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וּבֵ֥ית Beth-lebaoth H1034 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 13 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
1Topical passages linked to Joshua 19:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 15:32 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
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 βαθαρωθ καί ὁ ἀγρός αὐτός πόλις δέκα τρεῖς καί ὁ κώμη αὐτός
and Batharoth, and their fields, thirteen 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)
וּבֵית לְבָאוֹת וְשָׁרוּחֶן קִרְוִין תְּלַת 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 (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shârûwchen (“Sharuhen”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Sharuhen” (Shârûwchen) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
- 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- Joshua 15:32 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “Beth-lebaoth” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
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.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “Beth-lebaoth” occurs 2× in this single verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 19:6 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.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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
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.