וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה בִנְיָמִ֔ן אֶת גִּבְע֖וֹן וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ אֶת גֶּ֖בַע וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ
Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 21:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 21:17 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
Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
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King James Version Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its pasturelands, Geba and its pasturelands,
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,
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King James Version Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Beniamin they gaue Gibeon with her suburbes, Geba with her suburbes,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its outskirts, Geba and its outskirts,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Benjamin were given Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its pasturelands, Geba and its pasturelands,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Benjamin the following four towns and their pastures: Gibeon, Geba,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with the open land about it, Geba with the open land about it;
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גֶּ֖בַע
Gebaʻ
H1387
“Geba”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 18× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 18:24
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = "hill"
- a city in Benjamin, modern 'Jeba', which stands on the top of a steep terraced hill, six miles or ten kilometres north east of Jerusalem and three miles or five kilometres from Gibeah, on the edge of the Wadi Suweinit looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, modern 'Mukhmas'
- וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה maṭṭeh H4294 “and · from · staff of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- בִנְיָמִ֔ן Binyâmîyn H1144 “Benjamin” Noun, Proper
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- גִּבְע֖וֹן Gibʻôwn H1391 “Gibeon” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- גֶּ֖בַע Gebaʻ H1387 “Geba” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
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 →
- 10
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is גֶּ֖בַע Geba H1387 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
גֶּ֖בַע Geba H1387 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 4 particles
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ common land H4054 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 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
3Topical passages linked to Joshua 21:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 9:3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
- Joshua 18:24–25 and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
- 1 Chronicles 6:60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
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 παρά ὁ φυλή βενιαμίν ὁ γαβαων καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός καί γαθεθ καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός
And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gabaon and its suburbs; and Gatheth 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)
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)
וּמִשִׁבְטָא דְבִנְיָמִין יַת גִּבְעוֹן וְיַת רְוָחָהָא יַת גֶבַע 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.
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 10 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gebaʻ (“Geba”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Gebaʻ carries the sense “Geba.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Joshua 18:24, which shares the word «Geba», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “common land” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- “common land” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 21:17 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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Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.