Joshua 15:12
New International Version
The western boundary is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. These are the boundaries around the people of Judah by their clans.

New Living Translation
The western boundary was the shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea. These are the boundaries for the clans of the tribe of Judah.

English Standard Version
And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.

Berean Standard Bible
And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.

King James Bible
And 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.

New King James Version
The west border was the coastline of the Great Sea. This is the boundary of the children of Judah all around according to their families.

New American Standard Bible
The western border was at the Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.

NASB 1995
The west border was at the Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.

NASB 1977
And the west border was at the Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the west border was at the Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.

Amplified Bible
The western border was at the Great Sea, with its coastline. This is the border around the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.

Christian Standard Bible
Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.

American Standard Version
And the west border was to the great sea, and the border thereof. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And its border is from the west to Mariba at its borders; this is the border of the children of Yehuda for their families, like a circle

Brenton Septuagint Translation
These are the borders of the children of Juda round about according to their families.

Contemporary English Version
which was Judah's western border. The clans of Judah lived within these borders.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in their kindreds.

English Revised Version
And the west border was to the great sea, and the border thereof. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The western border is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. These are the borders around Judah that belong to their families.

Good News Translation
which formed the western border. Within these borders lived the people of the families of Judah.

International Standard Version
The western border was at the Mediterranean Sea coastline. This is the border that surrounded the territory of the descendants of Judah, according to their families.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Literal Standard Version
And the west border [is] to the Great Sea, and [its] border; this [is] the border of the sons of Judah all around for their families.

Majority Standard Bible
And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.

New American Bible
The western boundary was the Great Sea and its coast. This was the complete boundary of the Judahites by their clans.

NET Bible
The western border was the Mediterranean Sea. These were the borders of the tribe of Judah and its clans.

New Revised Standard Version
And the west boundary was the Mediterranean with its coast. This is the boundary surrounding the people of Judah according to their families.

New Heart English Bible
The west border was to the shore of the Great Sea. This is the border of the people of Judah according to their families.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the west border was to the great sea, and its coast: this is the border of the children of Judah round about, according to their families.

World English Bible
The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.

Young's Literal Translation
And the west border is to the great sea, and its border; this is the border of the sons of Judah round about for their families.

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Context
Judah's Inheritance
11Then it went out to the northern slope of Ekron, curved toward Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went on to Jabneel, and ended at the Sea. 12And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.

Cross References
Numbers 34:6
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

Joshua 15:11
Then it went out to the northern slope of Ekron, curved toward Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went on to Jabneel, and ended at the Sea.


Treasury of Scripture

And 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.

the great sea

Joshua 15:47
Ashdod 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:

Numbers 34:6,7
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border…

Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

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Joshua 15
1. The borders of the lot of Judah
13. Caleb's portion and conquest
16. Othniel, for his valour, marries Achsah, Caleb's daughter
18. She obtains a blessing of her father
21. The cities of Judah
63. The Jebusites unconquered














Verse 12. - And the coast thereof See Joshua 13:23.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the western
יָ֔ם (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

border
וּגְב֣וּל (ū·ḡə·ḇūl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

was the coastline
וּגְב֑וּל (ū·ḡə·ḇūl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

of the Great
הַגָּד֖וֹל (hag·gā·ḏō·wl)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

Sea.
הַיָּ֥מָּה (hay·yām·māh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

These
זֶ֠ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

are the boundaries
גְּב֧וּל (gə·ḇūl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

around
סָבִ֖יב (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

the clans
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃ (lə·miš·pə·ḥō·ṯām)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

of the descendants
בְּנֵֽי־ (bə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Judah.
יְהוּדָ֛ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites


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