King James Version
Joshua 13:5 in the King James Version says “And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising , from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering ...” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising , from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.”
Joshua 13:5 · KJV
From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: Mearah: or, the cave
And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising , from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e., (architectural) a notched battlement
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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