Joshua 21:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יַתִּר֙

Yattîyr

H3492

“Jattir”

Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Joshua 15:48

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3498

TWOT: None

Jattir = "plenty" - a town in the mountains of Judah

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 →

8: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יַתִּר֙ Jattir H3492 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יַתִּר֙ Jattir H3492 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 nouns
4 particles

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ common land H4054 ×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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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 21:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 15:48 In the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
Joshua 15:50 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
1 Samuel 30:27–28 To those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Joshua 21:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת יַתִּר֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ

and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 21:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ αιλωμ καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός καί ὁ τεμα καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός

and Aelom and its suburbs; and Tema and its suburbs;

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)

וְיַת יַתִּר וְיַת רְוָחָהָא וְיַת אֶשְׁתְּמֹעַ וְיַת רְוָחָהָא:

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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 21:14 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 →

John Gill's Exposition

And Jattir with her suburbs,.... See Gill on Jos 15:48,

and Eshtemoa with her suburbs; See Gill on Jos 15:50.

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

14-17. Jattir — Jos_15:48.

Eshtemoah — Jos_15:50.

Debir — Jos_10:38.

Juttah — Jos_15:55.

Beth-shemesh — Jos_15:10.

Gibeon — Jos_9:3.

Geba — Jos_18:24.

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

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 8 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yattîyr (“Jattir”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yattîyr carries the sense “Jattir.” How does it shape the verse?
Joshua 15:48 shares the word «Jattir» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“common land” 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 John Gill's Exposition and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“common land” occurs 2× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.