Numbers 34:6

Numbers 34:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your western border.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.

Context of Numbers 34:6

4It will go south of the place called Scorpion Hill, and it will continue to Zin. Then it will go south of Kadesh-Barnea. It will go to Hazar-Addar and then across to Azmon. 5There the border will turn and it will go along the Stream of Egypt. It will continue as far as the Mediterranean Sea. The west border of your land will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. 7This will be the north border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Hor mountain. 8From Hor mountain the border will go to Lebo-Hamath. Then it will go to Zedad.

Numbers 34:6 word by word

וּגְב֣וּל יָ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּד֖וֹל וּגְב֑וּל זֶֽה־יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם גְּב֥וּל יָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• the westernיָםyâm · sea: westH3220
• borderגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: boundaryH1366
• ye shall even have the greatגָּדוֹלgâdôl gâdôl · Great (Sea)H1419
• seaיָםyâm · seaH3220

Cross-references for Numbers 34:6

• Joshua 1:4You will have all the land from the desert in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north. It will be from the river Euphrates to the Mediterranean Sea on the west. You will have all the land of the Hittite people.
• Joshua 9:1All the kings who lived west of the Jordan River heard about what had happened at Ai. They were the kings who ruled in the hill country, in the low hills in the west, and all the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, as far as Lebanon. They were the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
• Joshua 15:12The west border of Judah's land was the Mediterranean Sea. Those were the borders of the land which Judah's tribe and its clans received.
• Joshua 23:4Remember how I have given land to each of your tribes. The land is between the Jordan River in the east, and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. It is land that belonged to different nations. Some of those people we have chased away, but some of them still remain in the land.
• Ezekiel 47:10Men will stand on the edge of the sea to catch fish. They will use their nets to catch fish, all the way from En-Gedi to En-Eglaim. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Mediterranean Sea.

Commentaries on Numbers 34:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Ye shall even have the great sea for a border - The Mediterranean Sea, called here the Great Sea, to distinguish it from the Dead Sea, the Sea of Tiberias, etc., which were only a sort of lakes. In Hebrew there is properly but one term, ים yam, which is applied to all collections of water apparently stagnant, and which is generally translated sea. The Greek of the New Testament follows the Hebrew, and employs, in general, the word , Sea, whether it speaks…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-9The natural western boundary of Canaan was the Mediterranean coast ("the Great Sea," 34:6). The northern boundary started at the Mediterranean and went east to Mount Hor. This was somewhere in the Lebanon mountain range (not the place of Aaron's death, 20:22–29). Lebo-hamath: Compare 13:21; 1 Kings 8:65; Amos 6:14.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. the western border--There is no uncertainty about this boundary, as it is universally allowed to be the Mediterranean, which is called "the great sea" in comparison with the small inland seas or lakes known to the Hebrews.Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 34:6

• Canaanites
• Mediterranean Sea

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• the sea, the Great Sea, the western sea
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Commentaries on Numbers 34

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary