Numbers 33:19
in Numbers 33They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon-perez.
KJV
And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon–parez.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
removed from the desert of Sinai
on Numbers 33:16-20
Two of these camps carry their own stories, the graves of the people that lusted at Kibroth-hattaavah in Numbers 11:34 and the seven days Miriam was shut out of the camp at Hazeroth in Numbers 12:14-15. The first of those names was given by the event itself. After Hazeroth the record goes quiet, and Rithmah, Rimmon-parez and Libnah are given with no word of what happened at them. Nothing in the list marks the sentence passed at Kadesh, which decided the rest of the book.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
But as there are no less than eighteen stations inserted between Hazeroth and Kadesh, and only eleven days were spent in performing that journey (De 1:2), it is evident that the intermediate stations here recorded belong to another and totally different visit to Kadesh. The first was when they left Sinai in the second month (Nu 1:11;
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The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּסְע֖וּ | vaiyisu | and they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| מֵרִתְמָ֑ה | meritmah | from Rithmah | H7575 → | |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְּרִמֹּ֥ן | berimon | at Rimmon- | H7428 → | 4 times |
| פָּֽרֶץ׃ | paretz | perez | H7428 → | 4 times |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מֵרִתְמָ֑הfrom Rithmah
meritmahH7575 →
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְּרִמֹּ֥ןat Rimmon-
berimonH7428 →4 times
פָּֽרֶץ׃perez
paretzH7428 →4 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.