Numbers 11:9
in Numbers 11When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
KJV
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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This verse in Numbers 11
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And the manna was as coriander seed
on Numbers 11:7-9
The narrative stops for three verses to describe the manna, and the description answers the complaint of verse 6 without one word of argument. It is like coriander seed and like bdellium, ground in mills or beaten in a mortar, baked in pans, and tasting of fresh oil, where Exodus 16:31 had given the taste as wafers made with honey. Gill takes the likeness to coriander seed as size and figure rather than colour, since coriander is dark and the manna white. Verse 9 adds that it fell with the dew in the night, so it was on the ground before anybody in the camp was awake.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
It may be noticed that the resemblance of the manna to coriander seed was not in the color, but in the size and figure; and from its comparison to bdellium, which is either a drop of white gum or a white pearl, we are enabled to form a better idea of it.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְרֶ֧דֶת | uveredet | and when came down | H3381 → | 381 times |
| הַטַּ֛ל | hatal | the dew | H2919 → | |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖ה | hamachaneh | the camp | H4264 → | 215 times |
| לָ֑יְלָה | layelah | night | H3915 → | 233 times |
| יֵרֵ֥ד | yered | it came down | H3381 → | 381 times |
| הַמָּ֖ן | haman | the manna | H4478 → | 14 times |
| עָלָֽיו׃ | ʾalav | with it | H5921 → | 5755 times |
וּבְרֶ֧דֶתand when came down
uveredetH3381 →381 times
הַטַּ֛לthe dew
hatalH2919 →
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הthe camp
hamachanehH4264 →215 times
לָ֑יְלָהnight
layelahH3915 →233 times
יֵרֵ֥דit came down
yeredH3381 →381 times
הַמָּ֖ןthe manna
hamanH4478 →14 times
עָלָֽיו׃with it
ʾalavH5921 →5755 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
it leads to
- Isaiah 55:10–11
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- Psalms 72:6
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
- Micah 5:7
Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
- Job 29:22–23
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
- Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
- Isaiah 55:10–11
Through
Psalms 105:40They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
it leads to
- Psalms 78:18
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone,…
- John 6:31–33
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
- Psalms 78:18
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.