וּמִמַּ֨טֵּה דָ֔ן אֶֽת אֶלְתְּקֵ֖א וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ אֶֽת גִּבְּת֖וֹן וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ
Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 21:23
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 21:23 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 Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon 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 Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,
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King James Version Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its pasturelands, Gibbethon 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 Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From the tribe of Dan they were given Elteke, Gibbethon,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From the tribe of Dan they were given Elteke, Gibbethon,
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King James Version Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbes, Gibethon with her suburbes,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And of the tribe of Dan, Eltheco and Gabathon,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its suburbs, Gibbethon and its suburbs,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its outskirts, Gibbethon and its outskirts,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Dan, the clan of Kohath was given Eltekeh with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its pasturelands, Gibbethon and its pasturelands,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its suburbs, Gibbethon and its suburbs,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Dan, the following four towns and their pastures: Eltekeh, Gibbethon,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with the open land about it, Gibbethon with the open land about it;
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אֶלְתְּקֵ֖א
ʼEltᵉqêʼ
H514
“Eltekeh”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 19:44
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Eltekeh = "let God spue thee out"
- Levitical city in the tribe of Dan, between Ekron and Timna
- וּמִמַּ֨טֵּה maṭṭeh H4294 “and · from · staff of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- דָ֔ן Dân H1835 “Dan” Noun, Proper
- אֶֽת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אֶלְתְּקֵ֖א ʼEltᵉqêʼ H514 “Eltekeh” 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
- אֶֽת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- גִּבְּת֖וֹן Gibbᵉthôwn H1405 “Gibbethon” 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 אֶלְתְּקֵ֖א Eltekeh H514 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֶלְתְּקֵ֖א Eltekeh H514 occurs in 2 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 14 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 18 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
1Topical passages linked to Joshua 21:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 19:44–45 and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
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 ἐκ ὁ φυλή δαν ὁ ελκωθαιμ καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός καί ὁ γεθεδαν καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός
and the tribe of Dan, Helcothaim and its suburbs; and Gethedan 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 דְדָן יַת אֶלְתְּקֵא וְיַת רְוָחָהָא יַת גִבְּתוֹן 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 ʼEltᵉqêʼ (“Eltekeh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Eltekeh” (ʼEltᵉqêʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Joshua 19:44 shares the word «Eltekeh» 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 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 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 21:23 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 →
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.