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Numbers 34:28

in Numbers 34

and Pedahel son of Ammihud, a leader from the tribe of Naphtali.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

KJV

And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

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This verse in Numbers 34

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad

on Numbers 34:21-29

The order of the tribes in this list matches none of the other lists in the book, not chapter 1, not chapter 2 and not chapter 26. Clarke reads it as the order in which the tribes came to hold their ground, running from Judah in the south to Naphtali in the north, while Barnes says only that the arrangement belongs to this passage alone. Apart from Caleb, none of these ten men is heard of again in Scripture, and every prince who served in chapter 1 has died under the sentence of 14:29. Verse 29 closes with a commission to divide land none of them had yet stood on, and Joshua 19:51 records Eleazar, Joshua and the heads of the tribes doing it at Shiloh.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

names of the men . . . which shall divide the land--This appointment by the Lord before the Jordan tended not only to animate the Israelites faith in the certainty of the conquest, but to prevent all subsequent dispute and discontent, which might have been dangerous in presence of the natives.

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The words behind it

7 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.

  • וּלְמַטֵּ֥הand of [the] tribe of

    ulematehH4294 →252 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] descendants of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • נַפְתָּלִ֖יNaphtali

    naftaliH5321 →51 times

  • נָשִׂ֑יאa leader

    nasi'H5387 →134 times

  • פְּדַהְאֵ֖לPedahel

    pedahelH6300 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • עַמִּיהֽוּד׃Ammihud

    ʾamihudH5989 →10 times

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; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.

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