כָּל עָרֵ֥י בְנֵֽי אַהֲרֹ֖ן הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים שְׁלֹשׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה עָרִ֖ים וּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 21:19
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 21:19 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
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their 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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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King James Version Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
All of the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, 13 cities and their 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
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
In all, thirteen cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
In all, thirteen cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
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King James Version Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
all the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, `are' thirteen cities and their suburbs.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
all the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, [are] thirteen cities and their outskirts.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The cities given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were thirteen cities in all, including their pasturelands.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
All of the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, 13 cities and their pasturelands.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
So in total thirteen towns and their pastures were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
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וּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן
migrâsh
H4054
“and · common lands · their”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural
- Appears 115× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 25:34
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
common, common land, open land, suburb
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- עָרֵ֥י ʻîyr H5892 “cities of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
- בְנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אַהֲרֹ֖ן ʼAhărôwn H175 “Aaron” Noun, Proper
- הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים kôhên H3548 “the · priests” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- שְׁלֹשׁ shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עָרִ֖ים ʻîyr H5892 “cities” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- וּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן migrâsh H4054 “and · common lands · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 7 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- עָרֵ֥י city H5892 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 9 Hebrew tokens and 9 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.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 11 words vs World English Bible 16. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
πᾶς ὁ πόλις υἱός ἀαρών ὁ ἱερεύς δέκα τρεῖς
All the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, thirteen.
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)
כָּל קִרְוֵי בְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן כַּהֲנַיָא תְּלַת עַשְׂרֵי קִרְוִין וּרְוָחֵיהֶן:
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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 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is migrâsh (“common land”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word migrâsh carries the sense “common land.” How does it shape the verse?
- What does the repetition of “city” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “city” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 21:19 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.
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.