Joshua 15:2

The bay, Heb. the tongue; by which he understands either a creek or arm of that sea; or a promontory, which by learned authors is sometimes called a tongue; it is not material to know which of these it was.

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Ezekiel 47:18 ; Ezekiel 47:8 ; Genesis 14:3 ; Isaiah 11:15 ; Joshua 3:16 ; Numbers 34:3
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The bay — Heb. the tongue: either a creek or arm of that sea; or a promontory, which by learned authors is sometimes called a tongue. Every sea is...

² And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the baya that looketh southward:

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 15:2