Numbers 3:22
in Numbers 3The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
KJV
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
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This verse in Numbers 3
Commentary
4 notes on this verseSeven thousand and five hundred - Perhaps originally ר resh, 200, instead of ך caph, 500; see the following note Num 3:39 (note).
This 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
Those that were numbered of them,.... Of the two families that sprung from Gershon: according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upwards: in the said families: even those that were numbered of them, were seven thousand and five hundred; 7,500 men, which was neither the least nor the largest number of the sons of Levi.
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
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פְּקֻדֵיהֶם֙ | pekudeihem | enrolled [men] their | H6485 → | 303 times |
| בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר | bemispar | by [the] number of | H4557 → | 134 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| זָכָ֔ר | zakhar | male | H2145 → | 82 times |
| מִבֶּן־ | miben- | from a son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| חֹ֖דֶשׁ | chodesh | a month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| וָמָ֑עְלָה | vamaelah | and up -wards | H4605 → | 140 times |
| פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם | pekudeihem | enrolled [men] their | H6485 → | 303 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֥ת | shivat | [were] seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| אֲלָפִ֖ים | ʾalafim | thousand<s> | H505 → | 505 times |
| וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ | vachamesh | and five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| מֵאֽוֹת׃ | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
פְּקֻדֵיהֶם֙enrolled [men] their
pekudeihemH6485 →303 times
בְּמִסְפַּ֣רby [the] number of
bemisparH4557 →134 times
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
זָכָ֔רmale
zakharH2145 →82 times
מִבֶּן־from a son of
miben-H1121 →4930 times
חֹ֖דֶשׁa month
chodeshH2320 →284 times
וָמָ֑עְלָהand up -wards
vamaelahH4605 →140 times
פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔םenrolled [men] their
pekudeihemH6485 →303 times
שִׁבְעַ֥ת[were] seven
shivatH7651 →394 times
אֲלָפִ֖יםthousand<s>
ʾalafimH505 →505 times
וַחֲמֵ֥שׁand five
vachameshH2568 →343 times
מֵאֽוֹת׃hundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.