Numbers 31:43
in Numbers 31this half belonged to the congregation: 337,500 sheep,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
KJV
(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
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This verse in Numbers 31
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And Moses gave the tribute
on Numbers 31:41-47
Moses hands the tribute from the men of war to Eleazar, and the congregation's half is then written out again inside a parenthesis, the same sheep and beeves and asses and persons a second time. Its levy of one in fifty goes to the Levites who kept the charge of the tabernacle, which rests on the arrangement of Numbers 18:21-24, where the Levites hold no inheritance and live on what Israel brings in. The phrase as the Lord commanded Moses falls four times in this chapter, at verses 7, 31, 41 and 47, and half of those fall in the accounting of the spoil.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught--Some of the captives having been killed (Nu 31:17) and part of the cattle taken for the support of the army, the total amount of the booty remaining was in the following proportions:
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase
The words behind it
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתְּהִ֛י | vatehi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| מֶחֱצַ֥ת | mechetzat | [the] half of | H4275 → | |
| הָעֵדָ֖ה | haedah | the congregation | H5712 → | 149 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַצֹּ֑אן | hatzon | the sheep | H6629 → | 274 times |
| שְׁלֹשׁ־ | shelosh- | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| מֵא֥וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| אֶ֙לֶף֙ | ʾelef | thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים | usheloshim | and thirty | H7970 → | 172 times |
| אֶ֔לֶף | ʾelef | thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֥ת | shivat | 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 |
וַתְּהִ֛יand it was
vatehiH1961 →3559 times
מֶחֱצַ֥ת[the] half of
mechetzatH4275 →
הָעֵדָ֖הthe congregation
haedahH5712 →149 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַצֹּ֑אןthe sheep
hatzonH6629 →274 times
שְׁלֹשׁ־three
shelosh-H7969 →432 times
מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
אֶ֙לֶף֙thousand
ʾelefH505 →505 times
וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣יםand thirty
usheloshimH7970 →172 times
אֶ֔לֶףthousand
ʾelefH505 →505 times
שִׁבְעַ֥תseven
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.
About Numbers
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.