Numbers - 34:9



9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 34:9.

Differing Translations

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And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
nod the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of Enan. These shall be the borders on the north side.
and the border shall go to Ziphron, and shall end at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.
And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the limits of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.
and the border hath gone out to Ziphron, and its outgoings have been at Hazar-Enan; this is to you the north border.
And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north.
And its confines shall go all the way to Ziphron, and to the village of Enan. These shall be the limits on the northern side.
Et illinc egredietur terminus iste ad Ziphon, eruntque egressus ejus ad villam Enan: iste erit vobis terminus aquilonaris.

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Historical Commentaries

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And the border shall go on to Ziphron,.... Which in the Jerusalem Targum is called Zapherin; and Jerom (s) says, that in his time this city was called Zephyrium, a town in Cilicia; but this seems to be at too great a distance:
and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan; which was the utmost of the northern border, and so it is in Ezekiel 47:17 and there called the border of Damascus: Reland (t) takes it to be the same with Enhazor, a city in the tribe of Naphtali, Joshua 19:37, the words only inverted:
this shall be your northern border: from the Mediterranean sea to Hazarenan in Naphtali.
(s) Comment. in ver. 15. (t) Palestin. lllustrat. par. 1. l. 1. p. 123.

Ziphron--("sweet odor").
Hazar-enan--("village of fountains"); but the places are unknown. "An imaginary line from mount Cassius, on the coast along the northern base of Lebanon to the entering into the Bekaa (Valley of Lebanon) at the Kamosa Hermel," must be regarded as the frontier that is meant [VAN DE VELDE].

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