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Numbers 35

Num. 35:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So all the 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}
which ye shall give
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
to 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'}
shall be forty
'arba`iym (Hebrew #705)
forty
KJV usage: -forty.
Pronounce: ar-baw-eem'
Origin: multiple of 702
and eight
shmoneh (Hebrew #8083)
feminine shmonah {shem-o-naw'}; or shmownah {shem-o-naw'}; apparently from 8082 through the idea of plumpness; a cardinal number, eight (as if a surplus above the "perfect" seven); also (as ordinal) eighth
KJV usage: eight((-een, -eenth)), eighth.
Pronounce: shem-o-neh'
Origin: or shmowneh {shem-o-neh'}
r 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}
: them shall ye give with their 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'}
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Josh. 21:41• 41All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities and their suburbs. (Josh. 21:41)

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Josh. 21:3‑42• 3And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the word of Jehovah, these cities and their suburbs.
 4And the lot came forth for the families of the Kohathites. And the children of Aaron the priest, of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
 5And the children of Kohath that remained had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
 6And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
 7The children of Merari according to their families had by lot out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
 8And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded through Moses.
 9And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which were mentioned by name,
 10and which the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi had (for theirs was the first lot);
 11and they gave them Kirjath-Arba, which Arba was the father of Anak, that is, Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with its suburbs round about it.
 12But the fields of the city and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
 13And they gave to the children of Aaron the priest the city of refuge for the slayer, Hebron and its suburbs; and Libnah and its suburbs,
 14and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,
 15and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,
 16and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes;
 17and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its suburbs, Geba and its suburbs,
 18Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four cities.
 19All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
 20And to the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites that remained of the children of Kohath, they gave cities. And the cities of their lot were out of the tribe of Ephraim,
 21and they gave them the city of refuge for the slayer, Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its suburbs,
 22and Kibzaim and its suburbs, and Beth-horon and its suburbs: four cities;
 23and out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its suburbs, Gibbethon and its suburbs,
 24Ajalon and its suburbs, Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: four cities;
 25and out of half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its suburbs and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: two cities.
 26All the cities were ten and their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
 27And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of half the tribe of Manasseh, they gave the city of refuge for the slayer, Golan in Bashan and its suburbs; and Beeshterah and its suburbs: two cities;
 28and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its suburbs, Dabrath and its suburbs,
 29Jarmuth and its suburbs, En-gannim and its suburbs: four cities;
 30and out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal and its suburbs, Abdon and its suburbs,
 31Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs: four cities;
 32and out of the tribe of Naphtali, the city of refuge for the slayer, Kedesh in Galilee, and its suburbs; and Hammoth-Dor and its suburbs, and Kartan and its suburbs: three cities.
 33All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
 34And to the families of the children of Merari, that remained of the Levites, they gave out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and its suburbs, Kartah and its suburbs,
 35Dimnah and its suburbs, Nahalal and its suburbs: four cities;
 36and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,
 37Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs: four cities;
 38and out of the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the slayer, Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs; and Mahanaim and its suburbs,
 39Heshbon and its suburbs, Jaazer and its suburbs: four cities in all.
 40These were all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.
 41All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities and their suburbs.
 42Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it: thus were all these cities. (Josh. 21:3‑42)
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1 Chron. 6:54‑81• 54And these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments, within their borders. For the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathites, for theirs was the lot;
 55and they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs round about it;
 56but the fields of the city, and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 57And to the children of Aaron they gave the city of refuge, Hebron; and Libnah and its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,
 58and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,
 59and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh and its suburbs;
 60and, out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs: all their cities, thirteen cities, according to their families.
 61And to the children of Kohath that remained were given by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and of the tribe of Dan and of the half tribe, half Manasseh, ten cities.
 62And to the children of Gershom according to their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
 63To the children of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
 64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.
 65And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which were mentioned by name.
 66And to the families of the children of Kohath who had the cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim,
 67they gave the city of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its suburbs,
 68and Jokmeam and its suburbs, and Beth-horon and its suburbs,
 69and Ajalon and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs;
 70and out of the half tribe of Manasseh: Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs,--for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
 71To the children of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its suburbs, and Ashtaroth and its suburbs;
 72and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and its suburbs, Dobrath and its suburbs,
 73and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs;
 74and out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal and its suburbs, and Abdon and its suburbs,
 75and Hukok and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs;
 76and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its suburbs, and Hammon and its suburbs, and Kirjathaim and its suburbs.
 77To the children of Merari that remained were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono and its suburbs, and Tabor and its suburbs;
 78and on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,
 79and Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs;
 80and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs,
 81and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jaazer and its suburbs. (1 Chron. 6:54‑81)

J. N. Darby Translation

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all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.