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Numbers 1:35

in Numbers 1

those registered to the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

KJV

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

This verse in Numbers 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

From the sons of Joseph

on Numbers 1:32-43

Joseph is counted as two tribes, and Ephraim at 40,500 stands above Manasseh at 32,200. Jacob had crossed his hands at Genesis 48:14-20 and said “his younger brother shall be greater than he”. The roll reads that way generations later.

This site's exposition

the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200

Joseph's two tribes together muster 72,700, and Matthew Henry notes that they come almost to Judah's 74,600. Manasseh supplies the smaller share. Jacob had called Joseph a fruitful vine at Genesis 49:22, and Henry reads both figures as that blessing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. 32,200 men. See Gill on Num 1:20.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Of the two half-tribes of Joseph, who is seen to be "a fruitful bough" [Ge 49:22], that of Ephraim was the larger, as had been predicted. The relative increase of all, as in the two just mentioned, was owing to the special blessing of God, conformably to the prophetic declaration of the dying patriarch.

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.

  • פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖םenrolled [men] their

    pekudeihemH6485 →303 times

  • לְמַטֵּ֣הof [the] tribe of

    lematehH4294 →252 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֑הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • שְׁנַ֧יִם[were] two

    shenayimH8147 →768 times

  • וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛יםand thirty

    usheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • אֶ֖לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וּמָאתָֽיִם׃ פand two hundred

    umatayimH3967 →581 times

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

The walk

3 stops

Each 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 2:21

    and his division numbers 32,200.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:34

      These were the clans of Manasseh, and their registration numbered 52,700.

  • Through

    Numbers 26:34

    These were the clans of Manasseh, and their registration numbered 52,700.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 2:20–21

      The tribe of Manasseh will be next to it. The leader of the Manassites is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur,

    • Numbers 1:34–35

      And from the sons of Manasseh, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

Where this verse is studied

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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.