Joshua 18:15
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But on the south side the border goeth out from part of Cariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoa.

Nephtoah

Joshua 15:9 And it passeth on from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the water of Nephtoa: and reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and it bendeth towards Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to say, the city of the woods.

Context
Benjamin's Inheritance
14And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south of the mountain that looketh towards Beth-horon to the southwest: and the outgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal, which is called also Cariathiarim, a city of the children of Juda This is their coast towards the sea, westward. 15But on the south side the border goeth out from part of Cariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoa.16And it goeth down to that part of the mountain that looketh on the valley of the children of Ennom: and is over against the north quarter in the furthermost part of the valley of Raphaim, and it goeth down into Geennom (that is the valley of Ennom) by the side of the Jebusite to the south: and cometh to the fountain of Rogel,…
Cross References
Joshua 9:17
And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their cities on the third day, the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira, and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.

Joshua 15:5
But on the east side the beginning shall be the most salt sea even to the end of the Jordan: and towards the north from the bay of the sea unto the same river Jordan.

Joshua 18:14
And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south of the mountain that looketh towards Beth-horon to the southwest: and the outgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal, which is called also Cariathiarim, a city of the children of Juda This is their coast towards the sea, westward.

Lexicon
On the south
נֶ֕גְבָּה (neḡ·bāh)
Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5045: South country, the Negeb, south

side
וּפְאַת־ (ū·p̄ə·’aṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6285: Mouth, direction, region, extremity

the border
הַגְּבוּל֙ (hag·gə·ḇūl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

began at the outskirts
מִקְצֵ֖ה (miq·ṣêh)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7097: End, extremity

of Kiriath-jearim
יְעָרִ֑ים (yə·‘ā·rîm)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7157: Kiriath-jearim -- 'city of forests', a city given to Judah, then to Benjamin

and extended
וְיָצָ֤א (wə·yā·ṣā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

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

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

the spring
מַעְיַ֖ן (ma‘·yan)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4599: A fountain, a source

at the Waters
מֵ֥י (mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

of Nephtoah.
נֶפְתּֽוֹחַ׃ (nep̄·tō·w·aḥ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5318: Nephtoah -- a place on the border of Judah and Benjamin


Additional Translations
On the south side the border began at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim and extended westward to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

And the south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah;

And the south side on the part of Cariath-Baal; and the borders shall go across to Gasin, to the fountain of the water of Naphtho.

And the south side was from the extreme end of Kirjath-jearim, And the border went out on the west, And went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

And the south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah:

And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjah-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

And the south quarter is from the end of Kirjath-Jearim, and the border hath gone out westward, and gone out unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah;
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Alphabetical: and at began border boundary came edge fountain from Jearim Kiriath Kiriath-jearim Nephtoah of on out outskirts side south southern spring The Then to was waters went west westward

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