And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
Their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, х miqtseeh (H7097)] - from the extremity, explained in the following clause.
From the bay that looketh southward, х halaashon (H3956), the tongue (cf. Joshua 15:5; Joshua 18:19)] - a projecting point of land, called by the Arabs el lisan, 'the tongue;' not that, however, which on the eastern side forms so striking a feature of the lake, as it could not have formed the boundary either of Judah or Benjamin, but that which forms the extreme point on the south.