Joshua 21:16
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And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine cities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.

Ain

Joshua 15:42 Labana and Ether and Asan,

1 Chronicles 6:59 Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.

Ashan

18 miles south from Eleutheropolis

Joshua 15:55 Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,

Bethshemesh

Joshua 15:10 And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.

1 Samuel 6:9,12 And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance. . . .

1 Chronicles 6:59 Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.

Context
Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites
15And Holon, and Dabir, 16And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine cities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.17And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,…
Cross References
Joshua 15:10
And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.

Joshua 15:55
Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,

1 Samuel 6:9
And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.

1 Kings 4:9
Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in Elon, and in Bethanan.

Lexicon
Ain,
עַ֣יִן (‘a·yin)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5871: Ain -- a spring (of water)

Juttah,
יֻטָּה֙ (yuṭ·ṭāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3194: Juttah -- a city in Judah

and Beth-shemesh—
שֶׁ֖מֶשׁ (še·meš)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1053: Beth-shemesh -- 'sun temple', three places in Palestine, also a place in Egypt

nine
תֵּ֔שַׁע (tê·ša‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8672: Nine, ninth

cities
עָרִ֣ים (‘ā·rîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

from
מֵאֵ֕ת (mê·’êṯ)
Preposition-m | Direct object marker
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

these
הָאֵֽלֶּה׃ (hā·’êl·leh)
Article | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 428: These, those

two
שְׁנֵ֥י (šə·nê)
Number - mdc
Strong's Hebrew 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

tribes,
הַשְּׁבָטִ֖ים (haš·šə·ḇā·ṭîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

along with
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

their pasturelands.
מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ (miḡ·rā·še·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4054: A suburb, the area around a, building, the margin of the sea


Additional Translations
Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, along with their pasturelands.And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

and Asa and its suburbs; and Tany and its suburbs; and Baethsamys and its suburbs: nine cities from these two tribes.

and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes;

and Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

And Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

Ain with its suburbs, Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs; nine cities out of these two tribes.
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