Hebrew Interlinear

Numbers 8:18 Interlinear

“And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel”

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Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וָֽאֶקַּ֖ח	H3947	And I have taken	to take (in the widest variety of applications)
2	אֶת	H853		properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
3	הַלְוִיִּ֔ם	H3881	the Levites	a levite or descendant of levi
4	תַּ֥חַת	H8478		the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
5	כָּל	H3605		properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
6	בְּכ֖וֹר	H1060	for all the firstborn	first-born; hence, chief
7	בִּבְנֵ֥י	H1121	of the children	a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
8	יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	H3478	of Israel	he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

Numbers 8:18 (current)And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel