Numbers 21:31
in Numbers 21So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
KJV
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
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This verse in Numbers 21
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites
on Numbers 21:31-32
The verb settles what the last chapters had only promised, that Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. Jaazer is spied out and taken, and the tribes who see this pasture will ask for it at 32:1-5.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. Not the land of the Moabites; and by those means before mentioned; by conquering Sihon their king, they came into the possession of it, and took up their dwelling in it; this was the beginning of the conquest of the Canaanites, and an earnest and pledge of inheriting their land promised unto them; the Israelites that dwelt here were the tribes of Reuben and Gad.
The words behind it
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ | vaiyeshev | and it dwelt | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| בְּאֶ֖רֶץ | beeretz | in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| הָאֱמֹרִֽי׃ | haemori | the Amorite[s] | H567 → | 87 times |
וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙and it dwelt
vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
בְּאֶ֖רֶץin [the] land of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
הָאֱמֹרִֽי׃the Amorite[s]
haemoriH567 →87 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.