From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
| Word | Hebrew | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| mount | הָהָ֔ר ha.Har | H2022 | a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figurative… · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute |
| Hor | מֵהֹ֣ר me.Hor | H2023 | Hor · preposition + proper noun, a place name |
| out | תְּתָא֖וּ te.ta.'U | H8376 | to mark off · verb, piel imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural |
| entrance | לְבֹ֣א le.Vo' | H935 | to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal infinitive construct |
| Hamath | חֲמָ֑ת cha.Mat | H2574 | Chamath · proper noun, a place name |
| forth | תּוֹצְאֹ֥ת totz.'Ot | H8444 | (only in plural collective) exit · noun, common feminine plural construct |
| border | הַגְּבֻ֖ל ha.ge.Vul | H1366 | properly · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute |
| Zedad | צְדָֽדָה tze.Da.dah | H6657 | Tsedad · proper noun, a place name + directional suffix |
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entrance of Hamath--The northern plain between those mountain ranges, now the valley of Balbeck (see on Num 13:21). Zedad--identified as the present Sudud (Eze 47:15).
From Mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath,.... Antiochia, as Jarchi; or rather Epiphania, as Jerom (r); the former being described by Hemath the great, Amos 6:2, this entrance was a narrow pass leading from the land of Canaan to Syria, through the valley which lies between Lebanon and Antilibanus: and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad; the same boundary as here is given in Ezekiel 47:15. (r) Comment. in Ezekiel 47. 16.
And the Lord spake unto Moses. God here undertakes the office of a prudent and careful father of a family, in fixing the boundaries of the land on every side, lest their right to posses it should ever be called in question. He begins on the southern side, where it must be observed that the district of Bashan is included in it, and all that the Israelites had acquired before their passage of the Jordan, so that this addition was approved of by God. He extends this part as far as the wilderness of Sin, and the borders of Edom, and brings it round from Kadesh-barnea to Addar, and the passage of Azmon, and, finally, to the stream which washes [228] the city of Rhinocorura, in the immediate vicin…
Read the whole note in the consoleThe northern boundary cannot be determined with certainty. "From the great sea, mark out to you (תּתאוּ, from תּאה = תּוה, to mark or point out), i.e., fix, Mount Hor as the boundary" - from thence "to come to Hamath; and let the goings forth of the boundary be to Zedad. And the boundary shall go out to Ziphron, and its goings out be at Hazar-enan." Of all these places, Hamath, the modern Hamah, or the Epiphania of the Greeks and Romans on the Orontes (see at Num 13:21, and Gen 10:18), is the only one whose situation is well known; but the geographical description of the northern boundary of the land of Israel חמת לבא (Num 13:21; Jos 13:5; Jdg 3:3; Kg1 8:65; Kg2 14:25; Ch1 13:5; Ch2 7:8; Amo…
The natural western boundary of Canaan was the Mediterranean coast (34:6). The northern boundary began at the Mediterranean and ran eastward to Mount Hor somewhere in the Lebanon range (not the place of Aaron’s death, 20:22-29). • Lebo-hamath: Cp. 13:21; 1 Kgs 8:65; Amos 6:14.
מהר ההר FROM MOUNT HOR you shall turn about and go along the northern boundary towards the eastern side and you will arrive at the “Entrance to Hamath”, which is Antioch. תוצאות הגבול means, THE END OF THE BOUNDARY. In every passage where it is said "the end of the boundary”, either the boundary ends there entirely, not passing further on at all (cf. Rashi on v. 5), or from there it spreads and widens, projecting from the straight line backwards to extend itself further on in a more slanting direction than the first widening. And relative to the measurement of the first breadth it calls it תוצאות (the goings forth, the endings), because there that measurement ends.
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