Numbers 7:72
in Numbers 7On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, the leader of the Asherites, drew near.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher:
KJV
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
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This verse in Numbers 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseOn the eleventh day - The Hebrew form of expression, here and in the 78th verse, has something curious in it. ביום עשתי עשר יום beyom ashtey asar yom, In the day, the first and tenth day; ביום שנים עשר יום beyom sheneym asar yom, In the day, two and tenth day. But this is the idiom of the language, and to an original Hebrew our almost anomalous words eleventh and twelfth, by which we translate the original, would appear as strange as his, literally translated, would appear to us.
This site's exposition
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai
on Numbers 7:66-83
Days ten to twelve are Dan, Asher and Naphtali, the north standard of Numbers 2:25-31. The twelfth day closes a sequence that has not varied in a single item since the first. A reader who finds these verses long is reading what the chapter is doing, since the length is the record that every tribe gave the same and none gave less.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered. See Num 1:13.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
But while this was done in one respect, as subjects offering tribute to their king, it was in another respect, a purely religious act. The vessels offered were for a sacrificial use--the animals brought were clean and fit for sacrifice, both symbolically denoting, that while God was to dwell among them as their Sovereign, they were a holy people, who by this offering dedicated themselves to God.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּיוֹם֙ | beyom | on [the] day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| עַשְׁתֵּ֣י | ʾashtei | [the] one [plus] | H6249 → | |
| עָשָׂ֣ר | ʾasar | ten | H6240 → | 338 times |
| י֔וֹם | yom | day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| נָשִׂ֖יא | nasi' | [the] leader | H5387 → | 134 times |
| לִבְנֵ֣י | livnei | of [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אָשֵׁ֑ר | ʾasher | Asher | H836 → | 43 times |
| פַּגְעִיאֵ֖ל | pagiel | Pagiel | H6295 → | 5 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עָכְרָֽן׃ | ʾakheran | Ocran | H5918 → | 5 times |
בְּיוֹם֙on [the] day
beyomH3117 →2304 times
עַשְׁתֵּ֣י[the] one [plus]
ʾashteiH6249 →
עָשָׂ֣רten
ʾasarH6240 →338 times
י֔וֹםday
yomH3117 →2304 times
נָשִׂ֖יא[the] leader
nasi'H5387 →134 times
לִבְנֵ֣יof [the] descendants of
livneiH1121 →4930 times
אָשֵׁ֑רAsher
ʾasherH836 →43 times
פַּגְעִיאֵ֖לPagiel
pagielH6295 →5 times
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
עָכְרָֽן׃Ocran
ʾakheranH5918 →5 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 2:27The tribe of Asher will camp next to it. The leader of the Asherites is Pagiel son of Ocran,
it leads to
- Numbers 1:13
from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
- Numbers 7:77
and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran.
- Numbers 1:13
Through
Numbers 1:13from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
it leads to
- Numbers 2:27
The tribe of Asher will camp next to it. The leader of the Asherites is Pagiel son of Ocran,
- Numbers 10:26
Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher,
- Numbers 2:27
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.