Numbers 34 · Verse 6

Numbers 34:6

And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
Numbers 34:6, King James Version

Numbers 34:6 in other translations

BSBYour western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
WEB“‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
ASVAnd for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.
YLT‘As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.
DARBYAnd as west border ye shall have the great sea, and its coast. This shall be your west border.
BBEAnd for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.
WebsterAnd as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

What does Numbers 34:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. the western border--There is no uncertainty about this boundary, as it is universally allowed to be the Mediterranean, which is called "the great sea" in comparison with the small inland seas or lakes known to the Hebrews.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Ye shall even have the great sea for a border - The Mediterranean Sea, called here the Great Sea, to distinguish it from the Dead Sea, the Sea of Tiberias, etc., which were only a sort of lakes. In Hebrew there is properly but one term, ים yam, which is applied to all collections of water apparently stagnant, and which is generally translated sea. The Greek of the New Testament follows the Hebrew, and employs, in general, the word θαλασσα, Sea, whether it speaks of the Mediterranean, or of the sea or lake of Galilee.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 34:1-15

Canaan was of small extent; as it is here bounded, it is but about 160 miles in length, and about 50 in breadth; yet this was the country promised to the father of the faithful, and the possession of the seed of Israel. This was that little spot of ground, in which alone, for many ages, God was known. This was the vineyard of the Lord, the garden enclosed; but as it is with gardens and vineyards, the narrowness of…

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Numbers 34:6 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.

וּגְב֣וּלu.ge.Vuland [the] border ofH1366
יָ֔םYam[the] westH3220
וְהָיָ֥הve.ha.Yahand it will beH1961
לָכֶ֛םla.Khemfor <the> you
הַיָּ֥םhai.Yamthe seaH3220
הַגָּד֖וֹלha.ga.Dol<the> greatH1419
וּגְב֑וּלu.ge.Vuland a borderH1366
זֶֽה\־zeh-thisH2088
יִהְיֶ֥הyih.Yehit will beH1961
לָכֶ֖םla.Khemof you
גְּב֥וּלge.Vulborder ofH1366
יָֽם\׃Yam[the] westH3220

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

Cross references for Numbers 34:6

  • Ezekiel 47:10

    And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En–gedi even unto En–eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

  • Joshua 15:47

    Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:

  • Joshua 1:4

    From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

  • Ezekiel 47:20

    The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.

  • Joshua 23:4

    Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

  • Ezekiel 47:15

    And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

  • Joshua 9:1

    And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

  • Joshua 15:12

    And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jos 1:4; 9:1; 15:12,47; 23:4; Eze 47:10,15,20

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Context

  • Numbers 34:5

    And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.

  • Numbers 34:6

    And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

  • Numbers 34:7

    And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:

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Numbers 34:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y el término occidental os será la gran mar: este término os será el término occidental.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et, pour frontière occidentale, vous aurez la grande mer et ses côtes; ce sera là votre frontière occidentale.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und die Westgrenze: sie sei euch das große Meer und das Angrenzende; das soll euch die Westgrenze sein. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Plaga autem occidentalis a mari magno incipiet, et ipso fine claudetur.