Numbers 3:21
in Numbers 3From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
KJV
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
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This verse in Numbers 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites
on Numbers 3:21-24
The Gershonites number seven thousand five hundred and pitch behind the tabernacle on the west. Their chief is Eliasaph the son of Lael, a name that occurs here and nowhere else in Scripture, and Gill remarks that neither the text nor the Jewish writers say which of the two families he belonged to. Three sides of the tent are filled in turn through this chapter and the fourth is held back until verse 38.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites,.... The first son of Levi: these are the family of the Gershonites; that were now, numbered.
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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְגֵ֣רְשׁ֔וֹן | legereshon | [belonged] to Gershon | H1648 → | 18 times |
| מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ | mishpachat | [the] clan of | H4940 → | 303 times |
| הַלִּבְנִ֔י | halivni | the Libnite[s] | H3846 → | |
| וּמִשְׁפַּ֖חַת | umishpachat | and [the] clan of | H4940 → | 303 times |
| הַשִּׁמְעִ֑י | hashimi | the Shimeite[s] | H8097 → | |
| אֵ֣לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| הֵ֔ם | hem | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת | mishpechot | [were] [the] clans of | H4940 → | 303 times |
| הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּֽי׃ | hagereshuni | the Gershonite[s] | H1649 → | 13 times |
לְגֵ֣רְשׁ֔וֹן[belonged] to Gershon
legereshonH1648 →18 times
מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙[the] clan of
mishpachatH4940 →303 times
הַלִּבְנִ֔יthe Libnite[s]
halivniH3846 →
וּמִשְׁפַּ֖חַתand [the] clan of
umishpachatH4940 →303 times
הַשִּׁמְעִ֑יthe Shimeite[s]
hashimiH8097 →
אֵ֣לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
הֵ֔םthey
hemH1992 →553 times
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת[were] [the] clans of
mishpechotH4940 →303 times
הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּֽי׃the Gershonite[s]
hagereshuniH1649 →13 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 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.