Jeremiah Chapter 31 verse 39 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 31:39

And the measuring line shall go out further straight onward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah.
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BBE Jeremiah 31:39

And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.
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DARBY Jeremiah 31:39

And the measuring line shall yet go forth before it unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn toward Goath.
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KJV Jeremiah 31:39

And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
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WEB Jeremiah 31:39

The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.
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YLT Jeremiah 31:39

And gone out again hath the measuring line Over-against it, unto the height of Gareb, And it hath compassed to Goah.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - Over against it upon the hill Gareb; rather, straight forward unto the hill Gareb. The hill of Gareb is not mentioned elsewhere; its meaning is probably "Leper's Hill." It must, of course, have been outside the city, and may be identified (after Schleussner and Hitzig) with "the fourth hill, which is called Bezetha" (Josephus, 'De Bell. Jud.,' 5:04, 2). To Goath; rather, to Goah. But the reading of the Peshito, "to Gibeah," should probably be adopted.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) The hill Gareb . . .--Neither of the two localities named is mentioned elsewhere, and their position is accordingly simply matter for conjecture. The name of the first, as signifying "the leper's hill" (the term being one that includes leprosy as well as other skin-diseases, Leviticus 21:20; Leviticus 22:22), indicates probably a position outside the walls assigned as a dwelling to persons suffering from that disease, corresponding, as some think, with the hill on the north side of Jerusalem which Josephus describes as Bezetha (Wars, v. 4, ? 2). Others, however, assign its position to the south-west corner of the walls. The name Gareb appears in 2Samuel 23:38 as belonging to one of David's thirty heroes, but there is nothing to connect him with the locality. Goath is a word of doubtful etymology. Some scholars (Hitzig) interpret it as "high-towering," and refer it to the height overlooking Kidron, afterwards surmounted by the tower Antonia. The Targum, however, paraphrases it as "the pool of the heifers," and connects the name with the verb for the lowing of that animal. By some writers it has been identified with Golgotha, but both topography and etymology are against this view.