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Numbers 33:28

in Numbers 33

They set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

KJV

And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

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This verse in Numbers 33

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12 · Written before 253.

proposed

Next they come to Matheca [Mithkah], which means "new death." What is the new death? When we die with Christ so that we may live with him.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Mithcah - Calmet conjectures that this may be Mocha, a city in Arabia Petraea. Stat. 25.

The words behind it

4 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיִּסְע֖וּand they set out

    vaiyisuH5265 →146 times

  • מִתָּ֑רַחfrom Tarah

    mitarachH8646 →

  • וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times

  • בְּמִתְקָֽה׃at Mithcah

    bemitkahH4989 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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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.

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