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Selected Verse: Joshua 16:8 - Strong Concordance

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Jos 16:8 Strong Concordance The border [01366] went out [03212] from Tappuah [08599] westward [03220] unto the river [05158] Kanah [07071]; and the goings out [08444] thereof were at the sea [03220]. This is the inheritance [05159] of the tribe [04294] of the children [01121] of Ephraim [0669] by their families [04940].
  King James The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah--It is retraced from east to west, to describe the prospective and intended boundary, which was to reach to the sea. Kanah ("reedy") flows into the Mediterranean.
 
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17 The king [04428] of Tappuah [08599], one [0259]; the king [04428] of Hepher [02660], one [0259];
7 And the coast [01366] of Manasseh [04519] was from Asher [0836] to Michmethah [04366], that lieth before [06440] Shechem [07927]; and the border [01366] went along [01980] on the right hand [03225] unto the inhabitants [03427] of Entappuah [05887].
8 Now Manasseh [04519] had the land [0776] of Tappuah [08599]: but Tappuah [08599] on the border [01366] of Manasseh [04519] belonged to the children [01121] of Ephraim [0669];