The Meaning of Joshua 18:25 Explained

Joshua 18:25

KJV: Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

YLT: Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Darby: Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

ASV: Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Gibeon,  and Ramah,  and Beeroth, 

What does Joshua 18:25 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Joshua 18

1  The tabernacle is set up at Shiloh
2  The remainder of the land is described, and divided into seven parts
10  Joshua distributes it by lot
11  The lot and border of Benjamin
21  Their cities

What do the individual words in Joshua 18:25 mean?

Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth
גִּבְע֥וֹן וְהָֽרָמָ֖ה וּבְאֵרֽוֹת

גִּבְע֥וֹן  Gibeon 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: גִּבְעֹן  
Sense: a Levitical city of Benjamin, modern ‘el-Jib’, which lies 5 miles or 8 km from Jerusalem.
וְהָֽרָמָ֖ה  and  Ramah 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: רָמָה 
Sense: a town in Benjamin on the border of Ephraim about 5 miles (8 km) from Jerusalem and near to Gibeah.
וּבְאֵרֽוֹת  and  Beeroth 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: בְּאֵרֹות  
Sense: a Gibeonite city allotted to Benjamin.