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Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture lands around it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anak;   Anathoth;   Hebron;   Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anakim, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hebron;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Anak;   Arba;   Caleb;   Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Anakim;   Arba;   Hebron;   Judah;   Kirjath Arba;   Levi;   Mountain;   South;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Kiriath-Arba;   Kohathites;   Pasture;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Arba;   Joshua;   Kiriath-Arba;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Anak, Anakim ;   Arba, Arbah ;   Kirjatharba ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hebron;   Kirjath-arba;   Smith Bible Dictionary - An'akim;   Ar'ba;   Kir'jath-Ar'ba;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arba;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Hill;   Hill;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anakim;   Arba;   City;   Hebron;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron; Arba was the father of Anak) with its surrounding pasturelands in the hill country of Judah.
Hebrew Names Version
They gave them Kiryat-Arba, [which Arba was] the father of `Anak (the same is Hevron), in the hill-country of Yehudah, with the suburbs of it round about it.
King James Version
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
Lexham English Bible
And they gave to them Kiriath Arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah and the pasturelands surrounding it.
English Standard Version
They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.
New Century Version
They gave them Kiriath Arba, also called Hebron, and all its pastures in the mountains of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
New English Translation
They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.
Amplified Bible
They gave them [the city of] Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.
New American Standard Bible
So they gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So they gaue them Kiriath-arba of the father of Anok (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah, with the suburbes of the same round about it.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands all around it.
Complete Jewish Bible
They gave them: Kiryat-Arba — this Arba was the father of ‘Anak — (that is, Hevron), in the hills of Y'hudah, with the surrounding open land;
Darby Translation
and they gave them Kirjath-Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak, that is, Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with its suburbs round about it.
Easy-to-Read Version
They gave them Kiriath Arba. (This is Hebron. It was named for a man named Arba. Arba was the father of Anak.) They also gave them some land near the town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
And they gave them Koriath-arba, which belonged to the father of giants, that is, Hebron, on the mountain of Judah, with its suburbs round about it.
Good News Translation
They were given the city of Arba (Arba was Anak's father), now called Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture land surrounding it.
Literal Translation
And they gave them the City of Arba, the father of Anak (which is Hebron) in the hills of Judah, with its open lands around it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So they gaue them Kiriatharba, which was the fathers of Enak, that is Hebron vpon the mount Iuda, and the suburbes therof rounde aboute.
American Standard Version
And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
Bible in Basic English
They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they gaue them Kiriath Arba of the father of Enac (which is Hebron) in the hyll countrey of Iuda, with the suburbes of the same rounde about it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak--the same is Hebron--in the hill-country of Judah, with the open land round about it.
King James Version (1611)
And they gaue them the citie of Arbah the father of Anak (which citie is Hebron) in the hill countrey of Iudah, with ye suburbs thereof round about it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they gave to them Cariatharboc the metropolis of the sons of Enac; this is Chebron in the mountain country of Juda, and the suburbs round it.
English Revised Version
And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak, (the same is Hebron,) in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
Berean Standard Bible
They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Cariatharbe, of the fadir of Enach, which is clepid Ebron, in the hil of Juda, and the subarbis therof bi cumpas;
Young's Literal Translation
and they give to them the city of Arba father of Anak (it [is] Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, and its suburbs round about it;
Update Bible Version
And they gave them Kiriath-arba, [Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak (which [city is] Hebron) in the hill-[country] of Judah, with its suburbs round it.
World English Bible
They gave them Kiriath-arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it.
New King James Version
And they gave them Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it.
New Living Translation
Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasturelands. (Arba was an ancestor of Anak.)
New Life Bible
They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) with the fields around it in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yea there was given unto them, the city of Arba, the father of Anak, the same, is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, - with the pasture land thereof, round about it;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.
Revised Standard Version
They gave them Kir'iath-ar'ba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture lands round about it.
THE MESSAGE
Kiriath Arba (Arba was the ancestor of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hills of Judah, with access to the pastures around it. The fields of the city and its open lands they had already given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus they gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.

Contextual Overview

9 Out of the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Simeon they gave the following towns mentioned by name, 10 which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites who belonged to the Levites, since the lot fell to them first. 11 They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture lands around it. 12 But the fields of the town and its villages had been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his holding. 13 To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasture lands, Libnah with its pasture lands, 14 Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands, 15 Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands, 16 Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands—nine towns out of these two tribes. 17 Out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands, 18 Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands—four towns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And they: 1 Chronicles 6:55

the city of Arba: or, Kirjath-arba, Joshua 15:13, Joshua 15:14, Joshua 15:54, Genesis 23:2, Genesis 35:27, Judges 1:10

is Hebron: 2 Samuel 2:1-3, 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 2 Samuel 15:7

in the hill: Joshua 20:7-9, Luke 1:39

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:3 - General Joshua 10:6 - mountains Joshua 14:13 - gave unto Judges 1:20 - they gave 2 Samuel 2:3 - the cities

Cross-References

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live in your sight!"
Genesis 21:1
The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised.
Genesis 21:2
Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him.
2 Samuel 18:33
The king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
Matthew 10:37
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
Hebrews 12:11
Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they gave them the city of Arba, the father of Anak,.... Which from him was called Kirjatharba, Joshua 14:15; and Anak, according to Kimchi, is not the name of a man, but a general name, comprehending the Anakims, a race of giants, among whom Arba was the chief and principal man, a prince and ruler over them, as Ben Melech:

which [city is] Hebron in the hill [country] of Judah; as in

Joshua 14:15; see Luke 1:39;

with the suburbs thereof round about it; as far as two thousand cubits, which were to put their cattle in, and provision for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so overruled it that the priestly families were placed upon the spot which He had determined before hand to choose as the site of His temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 21:11. The city of ArbaJoshua 14:15.


 
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