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Joshua 21

Josh. 21:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And out of the half
machatsiyth (Hebrew #4276)
a halving or the middle
KJV usage: half (so much), mid(-day).
Pronounce: makh-ats-eeth'
Origin: from 2673
tribe
matteh (Hebrew #4294)
from 5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread)
KJV usage: rod, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: mat-teh'
Origin: or (feminine) mattah {mat-taw'}
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
, Tanach
Ta`anak (Hebrew #8590)
of uncertain derivation; Taanak or Tanak, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Taanach, Tanach.
Pronounce: tah-an-awk'
Origin: or Tanak {tah-nawk'}
with her suburbs
migrash (Hebrew #4054)
from 1644; a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture); hence, the area around a building, or the margin of the sea
KJV usage: cast out, suburb.
Pronounce: mig-rawsh'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine (Ezek. 27:28) migrashah {mig-raw-shaw'}
, and Gath-rimmon
Gath-Rimmown (Hebrew #1667)
wine-press of (the) pomegranate; Gath-Rimmon, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Gath-rimmon.
Pronounce: gath-rim-mone'
Origin: from 1660 and 7416
with her suburbs
migrash (Hebrew #4054)
from 1644; a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture); hence, the area around a building, or the margin of the sea
KJV usage: cast out, suburb.
Pronounce: mig-rawsh'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine (Ezek. 27:28) migrashah {mig-raw-shaw'}
; two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
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Gath-rimmon,
Manasseh,
Tanach,
Tribe

Cross References

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Aner and Bileam are mentioned in Chronicles, instead of Tanach and Gath-rimmon.
(1 Ch 6:70.)
Either the cities had at this time different names, or afterwards their names were changed; or the Levites, being by some means dispossessed of the cities first assigned them, received others from their brethren.
A careful examination of the marginal references will discover other variations of this kind, which may be accounted for in the same manner.Tanach.
Josh. 17:11• 11And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries. (Josh. 17:11)
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Judg. 5:19• 19The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. (Judg. 5:19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and out of half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its suburbs and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: two cities.