Joshua - 15:54



54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 15:54.

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And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is Hebron and Sior: nine cities and their villages.
and Humtah, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, and Zior: nine cities and their hamlets.
And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba (which is Hebron) and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places.
Humtah and Kiriath-Arba, which is Hebron, and Zior: nine cities, and their villages.
Et Huntha, et Ciriath-arba, ipsa est Hebron, et Sior: urbes novem, et villae earum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Kirjath-arba - See the note on Joshua 14:15.

And Humtah,.... Of Humtah we nowhere else read:
and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron; of Kirjatharba we read frequently; See Gill on Joshua 14:15,
and Zior; Jerom says (o), that in his time there was a village shown by the name of Sihor, between Aelia (or Jerusalem) and Eleutheropolis, in the tribe of Judah:
nine cities with their villages; which is exactly their number, as expressed; here ends the second division, or of the cities in the hill country of Judea; a third follows.
(o) De loc. Hebrews. fol. 94. H.

Humtah is also unknown. Kirjath-arba, or Hebron: see at Joshua 10:3. Zior has also not been traced; though, "so far as the name is concerned, it might have been preserved in the heights of Tugra, near to Hebron" (Knobel).

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