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Numbers 3:22

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The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

KJV

Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

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This verse in Numbers 3

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Seven thousand and five hundred - Perhaps originally ר resh, 200, instead of ך caph, 500; see the following note Num 3:39 (note).

This site's exposition

From Gershon came the Libnite clan

on Numbers 3:21-24

The Gershonites number 7,500 and camp “on the west, behind the tabernacle”. They are led by Eliasaph son of Lael, a name found only here in Scripture. Gill remarks that neither the text nor the Jewish writers say which of the two clans he belonged to.

This site's exposition

The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500

John Gill notes that Gershon's 7,500 is neither the largest nor the smallest of the three houses. Matthew Henry observes that Levi alone has each house counted separately, an honour given to God's own tribe. Of these, 2,630 were of serving age at 4:40.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Those that were numbered of them,.... Of the two families that sprung from Gershon: according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upwards: in the said families: even those that were numbered of them, were seven thousand and five hundred; 7,500 men, which was neither the least nor the largest number of the sons of Levi.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted "from a month old and upward." The reason for the distinction is obvious.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • פְּקֻדֵיהֶם֙enrolled [men] their

    pekudeihemH6485 →303 times

  • בְּמִסְפַּ֣רby [the] number of

    bemisparH4557 →134 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • זָכָ֔רmale

    zakharH2145 →82 times

  • מִבֶּן־from a son of

    miben-H1121 →4930 times

  • חֹ֖דֶשׁa month

    chodeshH2320 →284 times

  • וָמָ֑עְלָהand up -wards

    vamaelahH4605 →140 times

  • פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔םenrolled [men] their

    pekudeihemH6485 →303 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֥ת[were] seven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • אֲלָפִ֖יםthousand<s>

    ʾalafimH505 →505 times

  • וַחֲמֵ֥שׁand five

    vachameshH2568 →343 times

  • מֵאֽוֹת׃hundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

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

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Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. 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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; 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.

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