SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:53
y Janum, y Bet-tapúa, y Afeca,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:53
Verse 53. Beth-tappuah] The house of the apple or citron tree. Probably a place where these grew in great abundance and perfection. Aphekah] See the note on chap. xii. 18.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 53. And Janum , etc.] Under the word “Janum”, Jerom writes f364 , there is a village called Janua, three miles from Legion to the south, but seems not to be what is written; and Bethtappuah is by Jerom called Bethaphu f365 , and said to be a village in the tribe of Judah, fourteen miles beyond Raphia, as you go to Egypt, which is the border of Palestine; and Aphekah ; Jerom speaks of a large castle in his time called Apheca, near the town of Palestine; there were several places of the name of Aphek; (see Gill on “ Joshua 12:18”). As for Bethtappuah, it seems to be a place which was dedicated to a deity to which apples were sacred, in memory of the apple by which mankind was seduced; there was in later times a goddess called Pomona from hence.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-63 - Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here fin Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but littl among the thousands of Judah, Mic 5:2, except that it was thu honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וינים 3241 ובית תפוח 1054 ואפקה׃ 664
