וְאֶת קִבְצַ֨יִם֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת בֵּ֥ית חוֹרֹ֖ן וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים אַרְבַּֽע
and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 21:22
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 21:22 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 Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
- Septuagint runs shorter here — compare
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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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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
and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Kibzaim and its pasturelands and Beth Horon and its pasturelands: four cities.
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
and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Kibzaim, and Beth-horon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Kibzaim, and Beth-horon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs; four cities.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbes: foure cities.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Cibsaim, and Beth-horon, with their suburbs, four cities.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Kibzaim and its suburbs, and Beth-Horon and its suburbs -- four cities.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Kibzaim and its outskirts, and Beth-Horon and its outskirts—four cities.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Kibzaim with its pasturelands, and Beth Horon with its pasturelands—four cities in all.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Kibzaim and its pasturelands and Beth Horon and its pasturelands: four cities.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Kibzaim and its suburbs, and Beth-horon and its suburbs: four cities;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth Horon with its pasture lands: four cities.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Kibzaim, and Beth-horon.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Kibzaim with the open land about it, and Beth-horon with the open land about it; four cities.
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קִבְצַ֨יִם֙
Qibtsayim
H6911
“Kibzaim”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Kibzaim = "two gatherings"
- a Kohathite Levitical city in Ephraim at Mount Ephraim
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- קִבְצַ֨יִם֙ Qibtsayim H6911 “Kibzaim” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- בֵּ֥ית Bêyth Chôwrôwn H1032 “Beth-horon” Noun, Proper
- חוֹרֹ֖ן Bêyth Chôwrôwn H1032 “Beth-horon” 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
- עָרִ֖ים ʻîyr H5892 “cities” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- אַרְבַּֽע ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 11
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- קִבְצַ֨יִם֙ Kibzaim H6911
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- קִבְצַ֨יִם֙ Kibzaim H6911
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בֵּ֥ית Beth-horon H1032 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 4 particles
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 7 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 19 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
4Topical passages linked to Joshua 21:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 16:3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and the goings out of it were at the sea.
- Joshua 16:5 The border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper;
- Joshua 18:13–14 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
- 1 Chronicles 6:68 and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,
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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 7 words vs World English Bible 13. 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.
καί ὁ καβσαϊμ καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω ὁ πρός αὐτός καί ὁ ἄνω βαιθωρων καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός πόλις τέσσαρες
and Baethoron and its suburbs: four cities:
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)
וְיַת קִבְצַיִם וְיַת רְוָחָהָא וְיַת בֵּית חוֹרוֹן וְיַת רְוָחָהָא קִרְוִין אַרְבַּע:
(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 11 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Qibtsayim (“Kibzaim”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Kibzaim” (Qibtsayim) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- This is the first place “Kibzaim” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Joshua 10:10, which shares the word «Beth-horon», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “common land” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- 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 Adam Clarke's Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 19 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “common land” occurs 2× in this single verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 21:22 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.