Joshua 19:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:

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וָעֶ֣תֶר

ʻEther

H6281

“and · Ether”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Joshua 15:42

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6280

TWOT: None

Ether = "abundant" - a town in the lowlands of Judah allotted to Simeon

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 וָעֶ֣תֶר Ether H6281 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וָעֶ֣תֶר Ether H6281 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Joshua 15:42

Grammatical profile

6 nouns
1 adjective

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 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

Topical passages linked to Joshua 19:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Numbers 33:19–20 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.
Joshua 15:32 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
1 Chronicles 4:32 Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Joshua 19:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

עַ֥יִן רִמּ֖וֹן וָעֶ֣תֶר וְעָשָׁ֑ן עָרִ֥ים אַרְבַּ֖ע וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 19:7 Septuagint · lemma form

ερεμμων καί θαλχα καί εθερ καί ασαν πόλις τέσσαρες καί ὁ κώμη αὐτός

Eremmon, and Thalcha, and Jether, and Asan; four 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)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

עַיִן רִמוֹן וְעֶתֶר וְעָשָׁן קִרְוִין אַרְבַּע וּפַצְחֵיהֶן:

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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 19:7 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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John Gill's Exposition

And all the villages that were round about these cities,.... Not only the suburbs adjoining to those cities which are mentioned before, but the several small distinct towns and villages, scattered up and down in the country:

to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south: this is the same with Baal in Ch1 4:33; and with Ramath of the south, or south Ramoth, as it is called Sa1 30:27; all these are the names of one and the same city:

this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon,

according to their families; that is, the above named cities fell to the lot of the inheritance of the Simeonites, and were divided among them according to the number of their respective families; at least, these were the chief and principal of them; for all that they possessed are not mentioned, particularly one called Tochen, Ch1 4:32; and another, the name of which is Etam there, unless that is thought to be the same with Ether here in Jos 19:7. Josephus says (f), this tribe took by lot that part of Idumea which lay near to Egypt and Arabia.

(f) Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 22.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

7. Second Group. 1. Ain = an “eye” and also in the vivid imagery of the East, a spring or natural burst of living water, always distinguished from the artificial “well” or “tank” = Beer or Bor. It generally occurs in combination with other words, defining the locality as En-gedi, En-gannim, En-hakkore, En-rogel. In two cases it stands alone, (a) here, and (b) in Num_34:11. Mr Wilton (Negeb, pp. 229–234) would here also connect it with the next name; 2. Remmon, as the name of a single city, Ain or En-Remmon = the spring of the pomegranate, and in the catalogue of the places re-occupied by the Jews after the return from the Captivity the two are joined, and appear in our Version as En-Rimmon, see Neh_11:29; Nehemiah 3. Ether, see ch. Jos_15:42 Van de Velde heard of a Tel Athar in the desert country below Hebron; 4. Ashan, see above, ch. Jos_15:42.

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.

Lesson kit

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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻEther (“Ether”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Ether” (ʻEther) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Joshua 15:42, which shares the word «Ether», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Compare how John Gill's Exposition and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.