King James Version
Numbers 1:17 in the King James Version says “And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:”
Numbers 1:17 · KJV
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.
As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“these men”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which are expressed”
H5344to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
“by their names”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
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