Joshua 21:11 - New King James Version

¹¹ And they gave them Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ They gave them [the city of] Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasturelands round about it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

Common English Bible

¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the highlands of Judah and the pastures around it. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ the city of Arba, the father of Anak, which is called Hebron, on the mountain of Judah, and its surrounding suburbs.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.

Joshua 21:11 Cross References

Genesis 23:2

So Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Genesis 35:27

Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.

2 Samuel 15:7

Now it came to pass after forty years that Absalom said to the king, “Please, let me go to Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the Lord.

1 Chronicles 6:55

They gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, with its surrounding common-lands.

Luke 1:39

Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,

Joshua 14:15

And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim). Then the land had rest from war.

Joshua 15:54

Humtah, Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages;

Joshua 21:10

which were for the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for the lot was theirs first.

Joshua 21:12

But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

Judges 1:10

Then Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron. (Now the name of Hebron was formerly Kirjath Arba.) And they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

1 Samuel 30:31

those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were accustomed to rove.