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Numbers 26— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Numbers 26. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.

The reading

Weekly portion 41 of 54

פִּינְחָס Pinchas, Numbers 25:10 to 30:1

Read with it: 1 Kings 18:46 to 19:21.

The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →

Where the rabbis cite this chapter

3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.

How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

Counting the generation born in the wilderness1

Numbers 26:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerand he saidH559יְהוָה֙yahwehYahwehH3068אֶל־ʾel-toH413מֹשֶׁ֔הmoshehMosesH4872וְאֶ֧לveeland toH413אֶלְעָזָ֛רʾelazarEleazarH499בֶּן־ben-[the] son ofH1121אַהֲרֹ֥ןʾaharonAaronH175הַכֹּהֵ֖ןhakohenthe priestH3548לֵאמֹֽר׃lemor<to> sayingH559

Onkelos Numbers 26:1

Targum
It was after the plague. Adonoy spoke to Moshe and Elozor, son of Aharon the kohein, saying:

Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

Numbers 26:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

לְזֶ֕רַחlezerachof ZerahH2226מִשְׁפַּ֖חַתmishpachat[the] clan ofH4940הַזַּרְחִ֑יhazarchithe Zerahite[s]H2227לְשָׁא֕וּלleshaulof ShaulH7586מִשְׁפַּ֖חַתmishpachat[the] clan ofH4940הַשָּׁאוּלִֽי׃hashaulithe Shaulite[s]H7587

Ramban on Numbers 26:13

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
“He is [identical with] ‘Tzochar’ [Zohar — mentioned in Genesis: 10 as one of the sons of Simeon who went down to Egypt], and it [the name Zerach (Zerah)] is an expression meaning tzohar [‘shining,’ which is also the meaning of Zerach ].

Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

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