KJV King James Version
And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 34:6
And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
WEB World English Bible
“‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border: this shall be your west border.
ASV American Standard Version
And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.
Surrounding context — Numbers 34
3 Then 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:
4 And 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 Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
6 And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
8 From mount Hor ye shall point out [your border] unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וּגְב֣וּלH1366 · ge.vulborder: boundaryיָ֔םH3220 · yamseaוְהָיָ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָכֶ֛םH9036 · khemyouהַיָּ֥םH3220 · yamseaהַגָּד֖וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeוּגְב֑וּלH1366 · ge.vulborder: boundaryזֶֽה־H2088 · zehthisיִהְיֶ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָכֶ֖םH9036 · khemyouגְּב֥וּלH1366 · ge.vulborder: boundaryיָֽם׃H3220 · yamsea
Cross-references
Ezekiel 47:20The west side also [shall be] the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This [is] the west side.Joshua 1:4From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.Joshua 15:12And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the coast [thereof]. This [is] the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.Ezekiel 47:10And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a [place] to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.Joshua 9:1And it came to pass, when all the kings which [were] on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof];Joshua 15:47Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:Ezekiel 47:15And this [shall be] the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;Joshua 23:4Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
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