King James Version
Numbers 14:4 in the King James Version says “And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”
Numbers 14:4 · KJV
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?
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“one”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“to another”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
“Let us make”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“a captain”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“and let us return”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
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