King James Version
Numbers 1:16 in the King James Version says “These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.”
Numbers 1:16 · KJV
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“of the congregation”
H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
“of the tribes”
H4294a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),
“of their fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“heads”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“of thousands”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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