King James Version
Numbers 1:3 in the King James Version says “From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by th...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.”
Numbers 1:3 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“old”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and upward”
H4605properly,the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all that are able to go forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“them by their armies”
H6635a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (speci
“in Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“shall number”
H6485to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“them by their armies”
H6635a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (speci
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