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Myles Coverdale Bible

Joshua 21:37

Kedemoth and Mephaat with their suburbes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Mephaath;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Kedemoth;   Merari;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mephaath;   Merarites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kedemoth;   Levi;   Mephaath;   Merari;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Kedemoth;   Mephaath;   Merarites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Kedemoth;   Mephaath;   Merari, Merarites;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kedemoth ;   Levites ;   Mephaath ;   Merari, Merarites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ked'emoth;   Meph'a-Ath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jahaz;   Joshua, Book of;   Kedemoth;   Mephaath;   Merari;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities.
Hebrew Names Version
Kedemot with its suburbs, and Mefa`at with its suburbs; four cities.
King James Version
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
Lexham English Bible
Kedemoth and its pasturelands, and Mephaath and its pasturelands; four cities.
English Standard Version
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities;
New Century Version
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, along with the pastures around these four towns.
New English Translation
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, along with the grazing areas of each—a total of four cities;
Amplified Bible
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
New American Standard Bible
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Kedemoth with her suburbes, and Mephaath with her suburbes: foure cities.
Legacy Standard Bible
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
Complete Jewish Bible
Heshbon with its surrounding open land and Ya‘zer with its surrounding open land — four cities in all.
Darby Translation
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs: four cities;
George Lamsa Translation
Ramin with its suburbs, and Jahlah with its suburbs, four cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, with their pasture lands.
Literal Translation
Kedemoth and its open lands, and Mephaath and its open lands; four cities.
American Standard Version
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
Bible in Basic English
Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kedmoth with her suburbes, and Mephaath with her suburbes, foure cities.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in all.
King James Version (1611)
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs, foure cities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
English Revised Version
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
Berean Standard Bible
Kedemoth, and Mephaath-four cities, along with their pasturelands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And of the lynage of Ruben, biyende Jordan, ayens Jerico, he yaf `the citee of refuyt,
Young's Literal Translation
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs -- four cities.
Update Bible Version
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
Webster's Bible Translation
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
World English Bible
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
New King James Version
Kedemoth with its common-land, and Mephaath with its common-land: four cities; 1 Chronicles 6:78, 79); Masoretic Text, Bomberg, and Targum omit Joshua 21:36, 37.">[fn]
New Living Translation
Kedemoth, and Mephaath—four towns.
New Life Bible
Kedemoth with its fields, and Mephaath with its fields, four cities.
New Revised Standard
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands—four towns.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Kedemoth, with her pasture land and Mephaath, with her pasture land, - four cities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-36) and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.
Revised Standard Version
Ked'emoth with its pasture lands, and Meph'a-ath with its pasture lands--four cities;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

Contextual Overview

9 Of the trybe of the children of Iuda, and of the trybe of the children of Simeon, they gaue these cities (which they named by name) 10 vnto the children of Aaron of the kynred of the Kahathites amonge the children of Leui: for the first lot was theyrs. 11 So they gaue them Kiriatharba, which was the fathers of Enak, that is Hebron vpon the mount Iuda, and the suburbes therof rounde aboute. 12 But the felde of the cite and the vyllages therof, gaue they vnto Caleb the sonne of Iephune for his possession. 13 Thus gaue they vnto the children of Aaron the prest, the fre cite of the deed sleyers, Hebron and the suburbes therof, Libna and the suburbes therof, 14 Iathir and the suburbes therof, Esthuma and the suburbes therof, 15 Holon and the suburbes therof, Debir and the suburbes therof, 16 Ain and the suburbes therof, Iuta and the suburbes therof, Beth Semes and the suburbes therof, euen nyne cities of these two trybes. 17 But of the trybe of Ben Iamin they gaue foure cities, Gibeon and ye suburbes therof, Gaba, and the suburbes therof, 18 Anathot and the suburbes therof, Almon and the suburbes therof:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:26 - Kedemoth Joshua 13:18 - Jahaza 1 Chronicles 6:78 - Jahzah Jeremiah 48:21 - Jahazah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Kedemoth with her suburbs,.... Near to which was a wilderness of that name; see Deuteronomy 2:26;

and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which Deuteronomy 2:26- :; where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it:

four cities, Joshua 21:35, are not in some ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, as is noted by the Masorites; but are in some others, as Kimchi owns, and stand in the Targum, in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and in a manuscript referred to by Hottinger e; and the same words are to be, found in 1 Chronicles 6:78, and are absolutely necessary to be retained, since without them there would be but eight cities for the Merarites, whereas they are expressly said to be twelve,

Joshua 21:40.

e Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. c. 2. p. 181, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Merarite cities. Some of these places are not found in the list of Zebulonite cities in Joshua 19:10-16. The text is considered corrupt.


 
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