Numbers 11:3
in Numbers 11So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
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ASV
And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.
KJV
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
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This verse in Numbers 11
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Taberah - i. e. “burning:” not the name of a station, and accordingly not found in the list given in Num. 33, but the name of the spot where the fire broke out. This incident might seem (compare Num 11:34) to have occurred at the station called, from another still more terrible event which shortly followed, Kibroth-hattaavah.
This site's exposition
he called the name of the place Taberah
The ground is named for what happened on it, Taberah, which is burning. Barnes points out that Taberah is missing from the list of stations in Numbers 33, so it marks a spot rather than a camp, and he reads the stop as the one chapter 33 records under the name given later at verse 34. Deuteronomy 9:22 puts Taberah at the head of a short list Moses reads back to Israel, Taberah and Massah and Kibroth-hattaavah.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
And he called the name of the place Taberah,....
No sooner was the fire of judgment quenched than the fire of sin breaks out again, and God takes occasion from it to magnify both his mercy and his justice.
These verses represent things sadly unhinged and out of order in Israel, both the people and the prince uneasy. Here is the people fretting, and speaking against God himself (as it is interpreted, Ps. lxxviii. 19 ), notwithstanding his glorious appearances both to them and for them.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּקְרָ֛א | vaiyikra' | and someone called | H7121 → | 733 times |
| שֵֽׁם־ | shem- | [the] name of | H8034 → | 864 times |
| הַמָּק֥וֹם | hamakom | the place | H4725 → | 401 times |
| הַה֖וּא | hahu' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| תַּבְעֵרָ֑ה | taverah | Taberah | H8404 → | |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| בָעֲרָ֥ה | vaarah | it had burned | H1197 → | 94 times |
| בָ֖ם | vam | among <the> them | ||
| אֵ֥שׁ | ʾesh | [the] fire of | H784 → | 378 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וַיִּקְרָ֛אand someone called
vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times
שֵֽׁם־[the] name of
shem-H8034 →864 times
הַמָּק֥וֹםthe place
hamakomH4725 →401 times
הַה֖וּא<the> that
hahu'H1931 →1879 times
תַּבְעֵרָ֑הTaberah
taverahH8404 →
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
בָעֲרָ֥הit had burned
vaarahH1197 →94 times
בָ֖םamong <the> them
vam
אֵ֥שׁ[the] fire of
ʾeshH784 →378 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Deuteronomy 9:22You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
it leads to
- Exodus 17:7
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Numbers 11:34
So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
- Numbers 11:1–5
Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed…
- Exodus 17:7
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.