King James Version
Numbers 16:50 in the King James Version says “And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.”
Numbers 16:50 · KJV
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
“returned”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“of the congregation”
H4150properly, an appointment, i.e., a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for
“was stayed”
H6113to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
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