אֶת קְדֵמוֹת֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת מֵיפָ֖עַת וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים אַרְבַּֽע
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Joshua 21:37
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Joshua 21:37 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
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath 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
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
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King James Version Public Domain
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Kedemoth and its pasturelands and Mephaath 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
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Kedemoth, and Mephaath—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Kedemoth, and Mephaath—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
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King James Version Public Domain
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Kedemoth with her suburbes, and Mephaath with her suburbes: foure cities.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad, one of the cities of refuge, and Manaim and Hesebon and Jaser, four cities with their suburbs.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs -- four cities.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Kedemoth and its outskirts, and Mephaath and its outskirts—four cities.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Kedemoth and its pasturelands and Mephaath and its pasturelands: four cities.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs: four cities;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Kedemoth, and Mephaath.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Kedemoth with the open land about it, and Mephaath with the open land about it; four cities.
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קְדֵמוֹת֙
Qᵉdêmôwth
H6932
“Kedemoth”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Deuteronomy 2:26
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Kedemoth = "eastern"
- one of the towns in the district east of the Dead Sea allotted to the tribe of Reuben and given to the Merarite Levites
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- קְדֵמוֹת֙ Qᵉdêmôwth H6932 “Kedemoth” 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
- מֵיפָ֖עַת Môwphaʻath H4158 “Mephaath” 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 →
- 10
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קְדֵמוֹת֙ Kedemoth H6932 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קְדֵמוֹת֙ Kedemoth H6932 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 4 particles
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ common land H4054 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 41 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer 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 10 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.
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 longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 41 words vs World English Bible 11. 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 δεκμων καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ μαφα καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός πόλις τέσσαρες
And out of the tribe of Gad the city of refuge for the slayer, both Ramoth in Galaad, and its suburbs; Camin and its suburbs; and Esbon and its suburbs; and Jazer and its suburbs: the cities were four in all.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, John Gill's Exposition discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 קְדֵמוֹת וְיַת רְוָחָהָא יַת מֵיפָעַת 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 10 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Qᵉdêmôwth (“Kedemoth”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Qᵉdêmôwth carries the sense “Kedemoth.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Deuteronomy 2:26, which shares the word «Kedemoth», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “common land” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 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 21:37 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.