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Numbers 13

Num. 13:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So they went up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
, and searched
tuwr (Hebrew #8446)
to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring
KJV usage: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-)spy (out).
Pronounce: toor
Origin: a primitive root
the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
from the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
of Zin
Tsin (Hebrew #6790)
a crag; Tsin, a part of the Desert
KJV usage: Zin.
Pronounce: tseen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to prick
v unto Rehob
Rchob (Hebrew #7340)
the same as 7339; Rechob, the name of a place in Syria, also of a Syrian and an Israelite
KJV usage: Rehob.
Pronounce: rekh-obe'
Origin: or Rchowb {rekh-obe'}
w, as men come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
to Hamath
Chamath (Hebrew #2574)
walled; Chamath, a place in Syria
KJV usage: Hamath, Hemath.
Pronounce: kham-awth'
Origin: from the same as 2346
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Josh. 15:1• 1This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. (Josh. 15:1)
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Josh. 19:28• 28And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon; (Josh. 19:28)

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Hamath; Hemath,
Man,
Rehob,
Wilderness of Zin

Cross References

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from the wilderness of Zin.The wilderness of Zin, is different from that called Sin. (Ex 16:1.)
The latter was near Egypt, but the former was near Kadesh Barnea, not far from the borders of Canaan.
It seems to be the valley mentioned by Burckhardt; which, under the names of El Ghor and El Araba, form a continuation of the valley of the Jordan, extending from the Dead sea to the eastern branch of the Red sea.
The whole plain presents to the view an appearance of shifting sands, whose surface is broken by innumerable undulations and low hills.
A few talk, tamarisk, and rethem trees grow among the sand hills; but the depth of sand precludes all vegetation of herbage.
Num. 20:1• 1Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. (Num. 20:1)
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Num. 27:14• 14For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. (Num. 27:14)
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Num. 33:36• 36And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. (Num. 33:36)
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Num. 34:3‑4• 3Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
 4And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon: (Num. 34:3‑4)
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Deut. 32:51• 51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. (Deut. 32:51)
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Josh. 15:1• 1This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. (Josh. 15:1)
Rehob.Rehob was a city, afterwards given to the tribe of Asher, situated near mount Lebanon, at the northern extremity of the Promised Land, on the road which leads to Hamath, and west of Laish or Dan:
compare Jdg 1:31; 18:28; Jos 19:28.Hamath.
2 Sam. 8:9• 9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, (2 Sam. 8:9)
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Amos 6:2• 2Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? (Amos 6:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towardsf Hamath.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "at the entrance of."