Deuteronomy 3:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [thereof], from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָֽעֲרָבָ֖ה וְהַיַּרְדֵּ֣ן וּגְבֻ֑ל מִכִּנֶּ֗רֶת וְעַ֨ד יָ֤ם הָֽעֲרָבָה֙ יָ֣ם הַמֶּ֔לַח תַּ֛חַת אַשְׁדֹּ֥ת הַפִּסְגָּ֖ה מִזְרָֽחָה׃

Transliteration

And-the-wəhāʿărābâ and-the-wəhaYardēn and-border ûgəbūl; from-Kinneret and-unto-wəʿad sea-of yām the-hāʿărābâ, sea-of yām the-salt hammelaḥ, under taḥat slopes-of ʾašdōt the-haPisgâ eastward mizrāḥâ.

Grammar Details

*wəhāʿărābâ*: conjunction + definite article + noun, feminine singular - and the Arabah (plain/desert)
*wəhaYardēn*: conjunction + definite article + proper noun - and the Jordan
*ûgəbūl*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and border/boundary
*Kinneret*: proper noun, geographic location - Chinnereth/Kinneret
*wəʿad*: conjunction + preposition - and unto/until
*yām*: noun, masculine singular construct - sea of
*hāʿărābâ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the Arabah (plain/desert)
*hammelaḥ*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the salt
*taḥat*: preposition - under/beneath
*ʾašdōt*: noun, feminine plural construct - slopes/flowing springs of
*haPisgâ*: definite article + proper noun, geographic location - the Pisgah
*mizrāḥâ*: noun, masculine singular + directional heh - eastward

Word Meanings

*ʿărābâ*: desert plain/steppe/wilderness
*gəbūl*: border/boundary/territory/limit
*yām*: sea/lake/ocean/west
*ʾašdōt*: slopes/foothills/springs

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Referenced Verses

Josh 12:3 : 3 and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
Gen 14:3 : 3 All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
Josh 3:16 : 16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Deut 4:49 : 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
Gen 19:28-29 : 28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Num 23:14 : 14 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Num 34:11-12 : 11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; 12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.
Josh 13:27 : 27 and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border [thereof], unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
Josh 15:2 : 2 And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looketh southward;
Josh 15:5 : 5 And the east border was the Salt Sea, even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;
Josh 18:19 : 19 and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Josh 12:3
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3and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
Deut 4:48-49
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86%
48from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
49and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
Josh 13:25-27
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25And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
26and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
27and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border [thereof], unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
Josh 15:5
80%
5And the east border was the Salt Sea, even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;
Deut 34:2-3
2 verses
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2and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the hinder sea,
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Num 34:10-12
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10And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham;
11and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
12and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.
Deut 3:16
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16And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [thereof], even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Josh 1:4
78%
4From 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 border.
Josh 18:18-20
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18and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah;
19and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.
20And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to their families.
Josh 13:9
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9from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
Deut 3:27
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27Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
2 Kgs 10:33
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33from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
Josh 13:20
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20and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
Judg 11:22
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22And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.
Deut 1:7
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7turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Josh 19:34
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34and the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from thence to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrising.
Josh 3:16-17
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16that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
17And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.
Num 33:49-50
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49And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
50And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Num 21:20
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20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Deut 2:29
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29as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us.
Deut 3:8
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8And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon;
Ezek 47:18-20
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18And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side.
19And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth - kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], unto the great sea. This is the south side southward.
20And the west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
Num 34:3
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3then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
Josh 12:1
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1Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, {H4217} from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
Josh 17:10
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10southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
Josh 11:2-3
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74%
2and to the kings that were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
3to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Deut 3:18
74%
18And I commanded you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
Deut 3:12
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12And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
Josh 13:32
74%
32These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
Num 34:15
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15the two tribes and the half - tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
Josh 20:8
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Josh 16:7
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7and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached unto Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
Josh 15:3
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Josh 13:16
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16And their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
Deut 11:30
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30Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Num 21:15
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15And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab.
Deut 4:46
74%
46beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, when they came forth out of Egypt.