Numbers 3:18
in Numbers 3These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
KJV
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
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This verse in Numbers 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And these were the sons of Levi
on Numbers 3:17-20
Gershon, Kohath and Merari are the three names Genesis 46:11 lists going down into Egypt and Exodus 6:16-19 sets out with their sons. The eight families named here are the working units of the rest of the chapter, since each of the three houses is about to receive a side of the tabernacle, a number, a chief and a load. Kohath is the second son and his house carries Moses and Aaron in it through Amram.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families,.... Or to Gershon belonged two families, called after the names of his sons, who were now numbered, namely: Libni and Shimei; and who are elsewhere mentioned as his sons, Exo 6:17; and from hence were the families of the Libnites and Shimites, as in Num 3:21.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted "from a month old and upward." The reason for the distinction is obvious.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵ֛לֶּה | veeleh | and these | H428 → | 746 times |
| שְׁמ֥וֹת | shemot | [were] [the] names of | H8034 → | 864 times |
| בְּֽנֵי־ | benei- | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| גֵרְשׁ֖וֹן | gereshon | Gershon | H1648 → | 18 times |
| לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם | lemishpechotam | to clans their | H4940 → | 303 times |
| לִבְנִ֖י | livni | Libni | H3845 → | |
| וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃ | veshimi | and Shimei | H8096 → |
וְאֵ֛לֶּהand these
veelehH428 →746 times
שְׁמ֥וֹת[were] [the] names of
shemotH8034 →864 times
בְּֽנֵי־[the] sons of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
גֵרְשׁ֖וֹןGershon
gereshonH1648 →18 times
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑םto clans their
lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times
לִבְנִ֖יLibni
livniH3845 →
וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃and Shimei
veshimiH8096 →
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
1 Chronicles 6:17These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 23:7
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
- Exodus 6:17
The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.
- Numbers 3:21
From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.
- 1 Chronicles 23:7
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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.