King James Version
Numbers 14:1 in the King James Version says “And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.”
Numbers 14:1 · KJV
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“lifted up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“And all the congregation”
H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
“and cried”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“that night”
H3915properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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