אֶת אַיָּלוֹן֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ אֶת גַּת רִמּ֖וֹן וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים אַרְבַּֽע
Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 21:24
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 21:24 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
Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
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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
Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
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King James Version Public Domain
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Aijalon and its pasturelands, Gath Rimmon 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
Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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King James Version Public Domain
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Aiialon with her suburbes, Gath-rimmon with her suburbes: foure cities.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Aialon and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, four cities.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Aijalon and its suburbs, Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs -- four cities.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Aijalon and its outskirts, Gath-Rimmon and its outskirts—four cities.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Aijalon with its pasturelands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasturelands—four cities in all.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Aijalon and its pasturelands, Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands: four cities.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Ajalon and its suburbs, Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: four cities;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Ajalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Aijalon with the open land about it, Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; four cities.
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גַּת
Gath-Rimmôwn
H1667
“Gath-rimmon”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 19:45
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Gath-rimmon = "winepress of the pomegranate"
- a city given out of the tribe of Dan to the Levites, situated on the plain of Philistia, apparently not far from Joppa
- a town of the half tribe of Manasseh located on the west side of the Jordan, assigned to the Levites
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אַיָּלוֹן֙ ʼAyâlôwn H357 “Ajalon” 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
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- גַּת Gath-Rimmôwn H1667 “Gath-rimmon” Noun, Proper
- רִמּ֖וֹן Gath-Rimmôwn H1667 “Gath-rimmon” 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
The rarest word here is גַּת Gath-rimmon H1667 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
גַּת Gath-rimmon H1667 occurs in 4 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 10 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 11 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
3Topical passages linked to Joshua 21:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 10:12 Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
- Joshua 19:42 and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah,
- 1 Chronicles 6:69 and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon 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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί αιλων καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός καί γεθερεμμων καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός πόλις τέσσαρες
and Aelon and its suburbs; and Getheremmon 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)
יַת אַיָלוֹן וְיַת רְוָחָהָא יַת גַת רִמוֹן וְיַת רְוָחָהָא קִרְוִין אַרְבַּע:
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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 11 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gath-Rimmôwn (“Gath-rimmon”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Gath-rimmon” (Gath-Rimmôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Joshua 19:45, which shares the word «Gath-rimmon», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “common land” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- 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 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “common land” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 21:24 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.