Study it in the app“All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will dispossess them before the sons of Israel. Only allot it to Israel as an inheritance, just as I have commanded you.”
Allכָּלthe inhabitantsיֹשְׁבֵיof the hill countryהָהָרfromמִןLebanonהַלְּבָנוֹןtoעַדMisrephoth-maim,מִשְׂרְפֹת מַיִםallכָּלthe Sidonians,צִידֹנִיםIאָנֹכִיwill dispossess themאוֹרִישֵׁםbeforeמִפְּנֵיthe sonsבְּנֵיof Israel.יִשְׂרָאֵלOnlyרַקallot itהַפִּלֶהָto Israelלְיִשְׂרָאֵלas an inheritance,בְּנַחֲלָהjust asכַּאֲשֶׁרI have commanded you.צִוִּיתִיךָ
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshve” appearshill country
A whole region of high ground, like that of Ephraim or Judah.
Where else “har” appearsLebanon
See it on the mapWhere else “levanon” appearsMisrephoth-maim
Misrephoth-maim: a place near Sidon.
Where else “misrfot” appearsSidonian
Sidonian: an inhabitant of Sidon, a city on the coast north of Israel.
Where else “tsidonim” appearsdispossess
To drive others out of their land.
Where else “orishe” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “pene” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearscast lots
To make fall; throw lots.
Where else “hapile” appearsinheritance
Land or goods passed from parents to children.
Where else “nachala” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiviti” appearsLebanon
Today: Lebanon (Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges)
A mountain range north of Israel, famous for its cedars; today it gives its name to the country of Lebanon.
Solomon asked for cedar wood from Lebanon to build the temple (1 Kgs 5:6). The Psalms compare the righteous to its cedars (Ps 92:12).
5and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
6 · This verse (above)
7And now divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh.”
