King James Version
Numbers 16:49 in the King James Version says “Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Kor...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.”
Numbers 16:49 · KJV
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“and seven”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with preposit
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“about the matter”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
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