Footnote 3 – The ‘Daughters of Judah’ Are Really Rural Satellites of an Urban Center

In these passages from the King James Version, banot is translated as towns. This is also true in the New American Standard and the Jerusalem Bible. The New English Bible translates banot as “villages” and the New International Version as “surrounding settlements.” The word translated “villages” in the King James Version (and “hamlets” by the New English Bible) is hatzar in Hebrew. Its meaning as a rural settlement of village size is not in dispute.