Joshua 15 · Verse 57

Joshua 15:57

Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
Joshua 15:57, King James Version

Joshua 15:57 in other translations

BSBKain, Gibeah, and Timnah—ten cities, along with their villages.
WEBKain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
ASVKain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
YLTCain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities and their villages.
DARBYKain, Gibeah and Timnah: ten cities and their hamlets.
BBEKain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places.
WebsterCain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:

What does Joshua 15:57 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 15:21-63

Jos 15:21-63. Cities of Judah. 21-63. the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah--There is given a list of cities within the tribal territory of Judah, arranged in four divisions, corresponding to the districts of which it consisted--the cities in the southern part (Jos 15:21-32), those in the lowlands (Jos 15:33-47), those in the highlands (Jos 15:48-60), and those in the desert (Jos 15:61, 62). One…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 57 Timnah - A frontier town of the Philistines; it was in this place that Samson got his wife, see Judges 14:1-15:20.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63

Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but little among the thousands of Judah, Mi 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.

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Joshua 15:57 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַקַּ֖יִןha.Ka.yin<the> KainH7014
גִּבְעָ֣הgiv.'AhGibeahH1390
וְתִמְנָ֑הve.tim.Nahand TimnahH8553
עָרִ֥ים'a.RimcitiesH5892
עֶ֖שֶׂר'E.sertenH6235
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן\׃ve.chatz.rei.Henand villages theirH2691

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Joshua 15:57

  • Joshua 15:10

    And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth–shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

  • Genesis 38:12

    And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

  • Jeremiah 14:1

    The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Timnah.
10; Ge 38:12; Jer 14:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Joshua 15:56

    And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

  • Joshua 15:57

    Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:

  • Joshua 15:58

    Halhul, Beth–zur, and Gedor,

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Joshua 15:57 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Caín, Gibea, y Timna; diez ciudades con sus aldeas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Kaïn, Guibha, et Thimna: dix villes et leurs hameaux;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Kajin, Gibea und Timna: zehn Städte und ihre Dörfer.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Accain, Gabaa et Thamna: civitates decem et villæ earum.