אֶת יַרְמוּת֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ אֶת עֵ֥ין גַּנִּ֖ים וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים אַרְבַּֽע
Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 21:29
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 21:29 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
Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim 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
Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
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King James Version Public Domain
Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Jarmuth and its pasturelands, En Gannim 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
Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Jarmuth, and En-gannim—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Jarmuth, and En-gannim—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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King James Version Public Domain
Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannin with her suburbs; four cities.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Iarmuth with her suburbes, En-gannim with her suburbes: foure cities.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Jaramoth, and Engannim, with their suburbs, four cities.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Jarmuth and its suburbs, En-Gannim and its suburbs -- four cities.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Jarmuth and its outskirts, En-Gannim and its outskirts—four cities.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Jarmuth with its pasturelands, and En Gannim with its pasturelands—four cities.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Jarmuth and its pasturelands, En Gannim and its pasturelands: four cities.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Jarmuth and its suburbs, En-gannim and its suburbs: four cities;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Jarmuth, and En-gannim.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Jarmuth with the open land about it, En-gannim with the open land about it; four cities.
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עֵ֥ין
ʻÊyn Gannîym
H5873
“En-gannim”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 15:34
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
En-gannim = "fountain of the garden"
- a city in the low country of Judah
- a city on the border of Issachar and allotted to the Gershonite Levites
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- יַרְמוּת֙ Yarmûwth H3412 “Jarmuth” 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
- עֵ֥ין ʻÊyn Gannîym H5873 “En-gannim” Noun, Proper
- גַּנִּ֖ים ʻÊyn Gannîym H5873 “En-gannim” 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 עֵ֥ין En-gannim H5873 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עֵ֥ין En-gannim H5873 occurs in 3 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 11 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 16 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 21:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Joshua 10:23 They did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.
- Joshua 12:11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
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 ὁ ρεμμαθ καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός καί πηγή γράμμα καί ὁ ἀποὁρίζω αὐτός πόλις τέσσαρες
and Remmath and its suburbs; and the well of Letters, 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 יַרְמוּת וְיַת רְוָחָהָא יַת עֵין גַנִים 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 ʻÊyn Gannîym (“En-gannim”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “En-gannim” (ʻÊyn Gannîym) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Joshua 15:34 shares the word «En-gannim» 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; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- 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 11 Hebrew ↔ 16 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 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 21:29 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).