KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
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“As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.”
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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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| “As” | כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר | Who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc | As |
| “the Lord” | יְהוָ֖ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “commanded” | צִוָּ֥ה | (intensively) to constitute, enjoin | commanded |
| “Moses,” | מֹשֶׁ֑ה | Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver | Moses |
| “so he numbered” | וַֽיִּפְקְדֵ֖ם | To visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc | numbered |
| “them in the wilderness” | בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר | A pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); also speech (including its organs) | wilderness |
| “of Sinai.” | סִינָֽי׃ | Sinai, mountain of Arabia | Sinai |
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17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
19 As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
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