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Numbers 31:36

in Numbers 31

This was the half portion for those who had gone to war:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep:

KJV

And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:

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This verse in Numbers 31

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

this plunder remained from the spoils

on Numbers 31:32-40

The plunder comes to 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys and 32,000 women. The soldiers’ half pays one in five hundred exactly: 675 sheep from 337,500.

This site's exposition

the half portion for those who had gone to war

The soldiers' half is set out in verses 37 to 40, and the congregation's matching half in verses 43 to 46. The two lists carry the same figures. Only the levy on them differs, one in five hundred here against one in fifty at verse 47.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Take the sum of the prey that was taken--that is, of the captives and cattle, which, having been first lumped together according to ancient usage (Ex 15:9;

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A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught--Some of the captives having been killed (Nu 31:17) and part of the cattle taken for the support of the army, the total amount of the booty remaining was in the following proportions:

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The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַתְּהִי֙and it was

    vatehiH1961 →3559 times

  • הַֽמֶּחֱצָ֔הthe half

    hamechetzahH4275 →

  • חֵ֕לֶק[the] portion of

    chelekH2506 →67 times

  • הַיֹּצְאִ֖יםthose [who] had gone out

    haiyotzeimH3318 →1067 times

  • בַּצָּבָ֑אin the army

    batzava'H6635 →485 times

  • מִסְפַּ֣ר[the] number of

    misparH4557 →134 times

  • הַצֹּ֗אןthe sheep

    hatzonH6629 →274 times

  • שְׁלֹשׁ־[was] three

    shelosh-H7969 →432 times

  • מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • אֶ֙לֶף֙thousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣יםand thirty

    usheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • אֶ֔לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וְשִׁבְעַ֥תand seven

    veshivatH7651 →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.

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.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 31 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and MannaFest exposition, Berean Standard Bible, Numbers 31:36-47.

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