Numbers 31:44
in Numbers 3136,000 cattle,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and thirty and six thousand oxen,
KJV
And thirty and six thousand beeves,
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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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבָקָ֕ר | uvakar | and cattle | H1241 → | 183 times |
| שִׁשָּׁ֥ה | shishah | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים | usheloshim | and thirty | H7970 → | 172 times |
| אָֽלֶף׃ | ʾalef | thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
וּבָקָ֕רand cattle
uvakarH1241 →183 times
שִׁשָּׁ֥הsix
shishahH8337 →216 times
וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖יםand thirty
usheloshimH7970 →172 times
אָֽלֶף׃thousand
ʾalefH505 →505 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.