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Nibshan,וְהַנִּבְשָׁןthe Cityוְעִירof Salt,הַמֶּלַחand En-gedi:וְעֵין גֶּדִיsixשֵׁשׁcitiesעָרִיםwith their villages.וְחַצְרֵיהֶן
Joshua 15:62
Study it in the app“Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi: six cities with their villages.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 15:62, word by word
- Nibshanנִּבְשָׁןnivshan
Nibshan
Nibshan: a town of Judah in the wilderness.
Where else “nivshan” appears- the Cityעִירir
City of Salt
City of Salt: a town of Judah in the wilderness, near the Salt Sea.
Where else “ir” appears- and En-gediעֵיןen
En-gedi
See it on the mapWhere else “en” appears- sixשֵׁשׁshesh
six
Six; also "sixth".
Where else “shesh” appears- citiesעָרִיםarim
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “arim” appears- with their villagesחַצְרֵיchatsre
village
A group of houses without a wall, in the countryside.
Where else “chatsre” appears
Places in this verse
En Gedi
Today: Ein Gedi oasis by the Dead Sea, Israel
An oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea, about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Jerusalem.
David hid from Saul in the caves of En Gedi and spared his life (1 Sam 24:1-7).
The context
61In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,
62 · This verse (above)
63But the Jebusite, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not dispossess them; so the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.