King James Version
Deuteronomy 2:16 in the King James Version says “So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,”
Deuteronomy 2:16 · KJV
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. brook: or, valley
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“were consumed”
H8552to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“So it came to pass when all the men”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“from among”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
“the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
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