Numbers 1:44
in Numbers 1These were the men numbered by Moses and Aaron, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house.
KJV
These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
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This verse in Numbers 1
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThe record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
These are those that were numbered,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵ֣לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| הַפְּקֻדִ֡ים | hapekudim | [were] the enrolled [men] | H6485 → | 303 times |
| אֲשֶׁר֩ | ʾasher | whom | H834 → | 5497 times |
| פָּקַ֨ד | pakad | he enrolled | H6485 → | 303 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֤ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| וְאַהֲרֹן֙ | veaharon | and Aaron | H175 → | 347 times |
| וּנְשִׂיאֵ֣י | unesiei | and [the] leaders of | H5387 → | 134 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| שְׁנֵ֥ים | sheneim | two [plus] | H8147 → | 768 times |
| עָשָׂ֖ר | ʾasar | ten | H6240 → | 338 times |
| אִ֑ישׁ | ʾish | man | H376 → | 1663 times |
| אִישׁ־ | ʾish- | a man | H376 → | 1663 times |
| אֶחָ֥ד | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לְבֵית־ | leveit- | for [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| אֲבֹתָ֖יו | ʾavotav | ancestors his | H1 → | 1212 times |
| הָיֽוּ׃ | hayu | they were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
אֵ֣לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
הַפְּקֻדִ֡ים[were] the enrolled [men]
hapekudimH6485 →303 times
אֲשֶׁר֩whom
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
פָּקַ֨דhe enrolled
pakadH6485 →303 times
מֹשֶׁ֤הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
וְאַהֲרֹן֙and Aaron
veaharonH175 →347 times
וּנְשִׂיאֵ֣יand [the] leaders of
unesieiH5387 →134 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
שְׁנֵ֥יםtwo [plus]
sheneimH8147 →768 times
עָשָׂ֖רten
ʾasarH6240 →338 times
אִ֑ישׁman
ʾishH376 →1663 times
אִישׁ־a man
ʾish-H376 →1663 times
אֶחָ֥דone
ʾechadH259 →971 times
לְבֵית־for [the] house of
leveit-H1004 →2046 times
אֲבֹתָ֖יוancestors his
ʾavotavH1 →1212 times
הָיֽוּ׃they were
hayuH1961 →3559 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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 26:64Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 2:14–15
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had…
- Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Numbers 14:29
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
- Numbers 1:1–2
On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in…
- Deuteronomy 4:3–4
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
- Deuteronomy 2:14–15
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).
