Joshua 13:20 — ExegesisTAB

Joshua 13:20 is a verbless coordinate list within a boundary-and-towns register, so the Hebrew relies on repeated conjunctions to mark each item rather than full clauses. The prefixed conjunction in uveit {וּבֵית | wə-bêṯ} ‘and house of’ introduces a place name built with a construct relationship (“house of X”), functioning in English as the conventional “Beth-” prefix. The sequence veashdot {וְאַשְׁדּוֹת | wə-ʾaš-dōṯ} ‘and slopes’ followed by ha-pisgah {הַפִּסְגָּה | hap-pis-gāh} ‘the Pisgah’ forms a genitive/topographic relation (“slopes of Pisgah”): the second noun is definite, and the pair is best represented in English with “of” to express that the slopes belong to, or lie on, Pisgah. The final uveit {וּבֵית | wə-bêṯ} resumes the earlier pattern, creating a rhythmic, cumulative delineation typical of territorial descriptions; preserving the repeated “and” and the place-name forms keeps the sense of an ongoing inventory rather than a self-contained sentence.