KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Numbers 3:22 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“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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| 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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| “Those that were numbered” | פְּקֻֽדֵיהֶם֙ | To visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc | Those numbered |
| “of them, according to the number” | בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר | A number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration | according number |
| “of all” | כָּל | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | all |
| “the males,” | זָכָ֔ר | Properly, remembered, i.e., a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex) | males |
| “from a month” | חֹ֖דֶשׁ | The new moon; by implication, a month | month |
| “old” | מִבֶּן | 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.) | old |
| “and upward,” | וָמָ֑עְלָה | Properly,the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc | upward |
| “even” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “those that were numbered” | פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם | To visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc | those numbered |
| “of them seven” | שִׁבְעַ֥ת | Seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number | seven |
| “were” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “thousand” | אֲלָפִ֖ים | Hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand | thousand |
| “and five” | וַֽחֲמֵ֥שׁ | Five | five |
| “hundred.” | מֵאֽוֹת׃ | A hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction | hundred |
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20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
22 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.
23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
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