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Joshua 18

Josh. 18:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But the Levites
Leviyiy (Hebrew #3881)
patronymically from 3878; a Levite or descendant of Levi
KJV usage: Leviite.
Pronounce: lay-vee-ee'
Origin: or Leviy {lay-vee'}
w have no part
cheleq (Hebrew #2506)
properly, smoothness (of the tongue); also an allotment
KJV usage: flattery, inheritance, part, X partake, portion.
Pronounce: khay'lek
Origin: from 2505
among
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
you; for the priesthood
khunnah (Hebrew #3550)
priesthood
KJV usage: priesthood, priest's office.
Pronounce: keh-hoon-naw'
Origin: from 3547
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
is their inheritance
nachalah (Hebrew #5159)
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
KJV usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158.
Pronounce: nakh-al-aw'
Origin: from 5157 (in its usual sense)
: andy Gad
Gad (Hebrew #1410)
Gad, a son of Jacob, including his tribe and its territory; also a prophet
KJV usage: Gad.
Pronounce: gawd
Origin: from 1464
, and Reuben
R'uwben (Hebrew #7205)
see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob
KJV usage: Reuben.
Pronounce: reh-oo-bane'
Origin: from the imperative of 7200 and 1121
, and half
chetsiy (Hebrew #2677)
the half or middle
KJV usage: half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.
Pronounce: khay-tsee'
Origin: from 2673
the tribe
shebet (Hebrew #7626)
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV usage: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: shay'-bet
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
of Manasseh
Mnashsheh (Hebrew #4519)
causing to forget; Menashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Manasseh.
Pronounce: men-ash-sheh'
Origin: from 5382
, have received
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
their inheritance
nachalah (Hebrew #5159)
properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
KJV usage: heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession. Compare 5158.
Pronounce: nakh-al-aw'
Origin: from 5157 (in its usual sense)
beyond
`eber (Hebrew #5676)
properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the Jordan; ususally meaning the east)
KJV usage: X against, beyond, by, X from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.
Pronounce: ay'-ber
Origin: from 5674
Jordan
Yarden (Hebrew #3383)
a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
KJV usage: Jordan.
Pronounce: yar-dane'
Origin: from 3381
on the east
mizrach (Hebrew #4217)
sunrise, i.e. the east
KJV usage: east (side, -ward), (sun-)rising (of the sun).
Pronounce: miz-rawkh'
Origin: from 2224
, which Moses
Mosheh (Hebrew #4872)
drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
KJV usage: Moses.
Pronounce: mo-sheh'
Origin: from 4871
the servant
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
gave
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
them.
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Josh. 13:33• 33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Jehovah the God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them. (Josh. 13:33)
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Josh. 13:8• 8with him the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them: (Josh. 13:8)

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Priest; Priesthood,
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River,
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Cross References

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the Levites.
Josh. 13:14,33• 14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance: the offerings by fire of Jehovah the God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to them.
 33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Jehovah the God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them. (Josh. 13:14,33)
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Num. 18:20,23• 20And Jehovah said to Aaron, In their land thou shalt have no inheritance, neither shalt thou have any portion among them: I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
 23But the Levite, he shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations. And among the children of Israel shall they possess no inheritance; (Num. 18:20,23)
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Deut. 10:9• 9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God told him. (Deut. 10:9)
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Deut. 18:1‑2• 1The priests, the Levites, and the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: Jehovah's offerings by fire, and his inheritance shall they eat,
 2but they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah, he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. (Deut. 18:1‑2)
and Gad.
Josh. 13:8‑31• 8with him the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them:
 9from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plateau of Medeba to Dibon,
 10and all the cities of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
 11and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and the whole of Bashan to Salcah;
 12all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, who remained of the residue of the giants; and Moses smote them and dispossessed them.
 13But the children of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites nor the Maachathites; but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites to this day.
 14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance: the offerings by fire of Jehovah the God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to them.
 15And Moses gave a portion to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
 16And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plateau by Medeba;
 17Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plateau, Dibon, and Bamoth-Baal, and Beth-Baal-meon,
 18And Jahzah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
 19and Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the vale,
 20and Beth-Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;
 21all the cities of the plateau, and the whole kingdom of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, whom Moses smote, him and the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon dwelling in the land.
 22And Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, did the children of Israel kill with the sword among them that were slain by them.
 23And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and its border. This is the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.
 24And Moses gave a portion to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families.
 25And their territory was Jaazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer which is before Rabbah;
 26and from Heshbon to Ramath-Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
 27and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon the king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, as far as the edge of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
 28This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.
 29And Moses gave a portion to half the tribe of Manasseh; and for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families:
 30their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.
 31And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, belonged to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, to the one half of the children of Machir according to their families. (Josh. 13:8‑31)
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Num. 32:29‑41• 29And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben pass with you over the Jordan, every one armed for battle, before Jehovah, and the land be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
 30but if they do not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
 31And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to thy servants, so will we do.
 32We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance on this side the Jordan shall be ours.
 33And Moses gave to them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and territories, the cities of the land round about.
 34And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
 35and Atroth-Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbebah,
 36and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-haran, strong cities, and sheepfolds.
 37--And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,
 38and Nebo, and Baal-meon (of which the names were changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities that they built.
 39--And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and they dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
 40And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
 41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their hamlets, and called them Havoth-Jair. (Num. 32:29‑41)
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Deut. 3:12‑17• 12And this land we took in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
 13and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob, even all Bashan, is called a land of giants.
 14Jair the son of Manasseh took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth-Jair, to this day.)
 15And I gave Gilead to Machir.
 16And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon, the middle of the ravine and its border, as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
 17the plain also, and the Jordan, and its border from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. (Deut. 3:12‑17)
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Deut. 4:47‑48• 47and they took possession of his land, and the land of Og the king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side the Jordan, toward the sun-rising;
 48from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, as far as mount Sion, which is Hermon, (Deut. 4:47‑48)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of Jehovah is their inheritance. And Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them.