KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Exodus 16:35 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “And the children” | וּבְנֵ֣י | A son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.) | children |
| “of Israel” | יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
| “did eat” | אָֽכְל֤וּ | To eat (literally or figuratively) | did eat |
| “manna” | הַמָּן֙ | Literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e., manna (so called from the question about it) | manna |
| “forty” | אַרְבָּעִ֣ים | Forty | forty |
| “years,” | שָׁנָ֔ה | A year (as a revolution of time) | years |
| “until” | עַד | As far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with) | until |
| “they came” | בֹּאָ֖ם | To go or come (in a wide variety of applications) | came |
| “to” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | to |
| “a land” | אֶ֣רֶץ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | land |
| “inhabited;” | נוֹשָׁ֑בֶת | Properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry | inhabited |
| “they did eat” | אָֽכְל֔וּ | To eat (literally or figuratively) | did eat |
| “manna,” | הַמָּן֙ | Literally a whatness (so to speak), i.e., manna (so called from the question about it) | manna |
| “until” | עַד | As far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with) | until |
| “they came” | בֹּאָ֕ם | To go or come (in a wide variety of applications) | came |
| “unto” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | unto |
| “the borders” | קְצֵ֖ה | An extremity | borders |
| “of the land” | אֶ֥רֶץ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | land |
| “of Canaan.” | כְּנָֽעַן׃ | Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him | Canaan |
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33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.
34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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