Joshua 21:11
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They gave them Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pastureland, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)
Read Joshua 21:11 Using Other Translations
And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.
Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasturelands. (Arba was an ancestor of Anak.)
What does Joshua 21:11 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Joshua 21:11
And they gave them the city of Arba, the father of
Anak
Which from him was called Kirjatharba, ( Joshua 14:15
) ; and Anak, according to Kimchi, is not the name of a man, but
a general name, comprehending the Anakims, a race of giants,
among whom Arba was the chief and principal man, a prince and
ruler over them, as Ben Melech:
which [city is] Hebron in the hill [country] of
Judah;
as in ( Joshua 14:15
) ; see ( Luke 1:39
Luke 1:65 ) ;
with the suburbs thereof round about it;
as far as two thousand cubits, which were to put their cattle in,
and provision for them.
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