Numbers 33:22
in Numbers 33They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
KJV
And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
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This verse in Numbers 33
Commentary
4 notes on this verseKehelathah - Utterly unknown; though some conjecture that it might have been the place called Keilah, 1Sa 23:1, etc., but this is unlikely. Stat. 19.
This site's exposition
and pitched at Rissah
on Numbers 33:21-29
Nine camps in nine verses with nothing but names attached. Most cannot be located now, and Adam Clarke marks Kehelathah utterly unknown while giving the distances the older writers assigned to the rest. These stations belong to the years under the sentence of chapter 14, which Deuteronomy 2:14 counts at thirty and eight from Kadesh-barnea to the brook Zered. The record keeps the movements of a generation whose story the narrative had stopped telling.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
From it they come to Macelath [Kehelathah], which is "sovereignty" or "staff." Power seems to be meant by both and that the soul has progressed so far as to rule over the body and to obtain by that the staff of power. Indeed, it is power not only over the body but also over the whole world that Paul means when he says, "By the cross the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּסְע֖וּ | vaiyisu | and they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| מֵרִסָּ֑ה | merisah | from Rissah | H7446 → | |
| וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בִּקְהֵלָֽתָה׃ | bikhelatah | at Kehelathah | H6954 → |
וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out
vaiyisuH5265 →146 times
מֵרִסָּ֑הfrom Rissah
merisahH7446 →
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בִּקְהֵלָֽתָה׃at Kehelathah
bikhelatahH6954 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12.