Numbers 3:30
in Numbers 3and the leader of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
KJV
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
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This verse in Numbers 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. The same man, who, with his brother Mishael, carried Nadab and Abihu out of the camp, and buried them, Lev 10:4; he descended from the last and youngest of the families of the Kohathites; and some think this was one reason at least of Korah's dissatisfaction, and of his entering into a conspiracy against Moses and Aaron, because one of a younger family of his house was preferred to this dignity before him.
This site's exposition
The families of the sons of Kohath
on Numbers 3:29-30
Kohath pitches on the south side, and Numbers 2:10 puts Reuben's standard on the south as well, so Korah the Kohathite and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Reuben in 16:1 were neighbours in camp before they were partners in a revolt. The chief set over the Kohathite houses is Elizaphan the son of Uzziel, and Uzziel is the last of Kohath's four sons in verse 19 while Korah descends from the second. Gill passes on the Jewish reading that this promotion over an older line was one of Korah's grievances, which chapter 16 itself never says.
The record, by era
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּנְשִׂ֥יא | unesi' | and [the] leader of | H5387 → | 134 times |
| בֵֽית־ | veit- | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| אָ֖ב | ʾav | a father | H1 → | 1212 times |
| לְמִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת | lemishpechot | of [the] clans of | H4940 → | 303 times |
| הַקְּהָתִ֑י | hakehati | the Kohathite[s] | H6956 → | 15 times |
| אֶלִיצָפָ֖ן | ʾelitzafan | [was] Elizaphan | H469 → | |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עֻזִּיאֵֽל׃ | ʾuziel | Uzziel | H5816 → |
וּנְשִׂ֥יאand [the] leader of
unesi'H5387 →134 times
בֵֽית־[the] house of
veit-H1004 →2046 times
אָ֖בa father
ʾavH1 →1212 times
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹ֣תof [the] clans of
lemishpechotH4940 →303 times
הַקְּהָתִ֑יthe Kohathite[s]
hakehatiH6956 →15 times
אֶלִיצָפָ֖ן[was] Elizaphan
ʾelitzafanH469 →
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
עֻזִּיאֵֽל׃Uzziel
ʾuzielH5816 →
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 (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.