Joshua 18:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And a lot goeth up `for' the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, for their families; and the border of their lot goeth out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּעַל גּוֹרַל מַטֵּה בְנֵי־בִנְיָמִן לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם וַיֵּצֵא גְּבוּל גּוֹרָלָם בֵּין בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה וּבֵין בְּנֵי יוֹסֵף

Transliteration

wa-yyaʿal gôral maṭṭēh bənê-binyāmin lə-mišpəḥōtām wa-yyēṣēʾ gəbûl gôrālām bên bənê yəhûdâ û-bên bənê yôsēp

Grammar Details

• *wa-yyaʿal*: consecutive waw + Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and it came up
• *gôral*: noun, masculine singular - lot
• *maṭṭēh*: noun, masculine singular construct - tribe of
• *bənê-binyāmin*: construct chain - children of Benjamin
• *lə-mišpəḥōtām*: preposition + noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - according to their families
• *wa-yyēṣēʾ*: consecutive waw + Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and it went out/came forth
• *gəbûl*: noun, masculine singular construct - territory/border of
• *gôrālām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their lot
• *bên*: preposition - between
• *bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - children of
• *yəhûdâ*: proper noun - Judah
• *û-bên*: conjunctive waw + preposition - and between
• *yôsēp*: proper noun - Joseph

Word Meanings

• *wa-yyaʿal*: came up/ascended/appeared
• *gôral*: lot/allotment
• *maṭṭēh*: tribe/staff/branch
• *wa-yyēṣēʾ*: came out/extended/proceeded
• *gəbûl*: border/territory/boundary

Referenced Verses

• Deut 10:1-9 : 1 `At that time hath Jehovah said unto me, Grave for thee two tables of stone, like the first, and come up unto Me, into the mount, and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood, 2 and I write on the tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou hast broken, and thou hast placed them in the ark; 3 and I make an ark of shittim wood, and grave two tables of stone like the first, and go up to the mount, and the two tables in my hand. 4 `And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Matters, which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and Jehovah giveth them unto me, 5 and I turn and come down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me. 6 `And the sons of Israel have journeyed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera, there Aaron died, and he is buried there, and Eleazar his son doth act as priest in his stead; 7 thence they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 8 `At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day, 9 therefore there hath not been to Levi a portion and inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah Himself `is' his inheritance, as Jehovah thy God hath spoken to him. 10 `And I -- I have stood in the mount, as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and Jehovah hearkeneth unto me also at that time; Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee. 11 `And Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go to journey before the people, and they go in and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them. 12 `And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 13 to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee? 14 `Lo, to Jehovah thy God `are' the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that `is' in it; 15 only in thy fathers hath Jehovah delighted -- to love them, and He doth fix on their seed after them -- on you, out of all the peoples as `at' this day; 16 and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more; 17 for Jehovah your God -- He `is' God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe; 18 He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment. 19 `And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt. 20 `Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear. 21 He `is' thy praise, and He `is' thy God, who hath done with thee these great and fearful `things' which thine eyes have seen: 22 with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.
• Deut 13:12 : 12 `When thou hearest, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to dwell there, `one' saying,
• Josh 15:1-8 : 1 And the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah, for their families, is unto the border of Edom; the wilderness of Zin southward, at the extremity of the south; 2 and to them the south border is at the extremity of the salt sea, from the bay which is looking southward; 3 and it hath gone out unto the south to Maaleh-Akrabbim, and passed over to Zin, and gone up on the south to Kadesh-Barnea, and passed over `to' Hezron, and gone up to Adar, and turned round to Karkaa, 4 and passed over `to' Azmon, and gone out `at' the brook of Egypt, and the outgoings of the border have been at the sea; this is to you the south border. 5 And the east border `is' the salt sea, unto the extremity of the Jordan, and the border at the north quarter `is' from the bay of the sea, at the extremity of the Jordan; 6 and the border hath gone up `to' Beth-Hoglah, and passed over on the north of Beth-Arabah, and the border hath gone up `to' the stone of Bohan son of Reuben: 7 and the border hath gone up towards Debir from the valley of Achor, and northward looking unto Gilgal, which `is' over-against the ascent of Adummim, which `is' on the south of the brook, and the border hath passed over unto the waters of En-Shemesh, and its outgoings have been unto En-Rogel; 8 and the border hath gone up the valley of the son of Hinnom, unto the side of the Jebusite on the south (it `is' Jerusalem), and the border hath gone up unto the top of the hill-country which `is' on the front of the valley of Hinnom westward, which `is' in the extremity of the valley of the Rephaim northward;
• Josh 16:1-9 : 1 And the lot for the sons of Joseph goeth out from Jordan `by' Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness going up from Jericho in the hill-country of Beth-El, 2 and hath gone out from Beth-El to Luz, and passed over unto the border of Archi `to' Ataroth, 3 and gone down westward unto the border of Japhleti, unto the border of Beth-Horon the lower, and unto Gezer, and its outgoings have been at the sea. 4 And the sons of Joseph -- Manasseh and Ephraim -- inherit. 5 And the border of the sons of Ephraim is by their families; and the border of their inheritance is on the east, Atroth-Addar unto Beth-Horon the upper; 6 and the border hath gone out at the sea, to Michmethah on the north, and the border hath gone round eastward `to' Taanath-Shiloh, and passed over it eastward to Janohah, 7 and gone down from Janohah `to' Ataroth, and to Naarath, and touched against Jericho, and gone out at the Jordan. 8 From Tappuah the border goeth westward unto the brook of Kanah, and its outgoings have been at the sea: this `is' the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, for their families. 9 And the separate cities of the sons of Ephraim `are' in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages; 10 and they have not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and is to tribute -- a servant.