What Does Numbers 17:2 Mean?

“Speak”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“and take”

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“of every one of them a rod”

a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),

“of every one of them a rod”

a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),

“according to the house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“of their fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“of all their princes”

properly, an exalted one, i.e., a king or sheik; also a rising mist

“according to the house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“of their fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“twelve”

two; also (as ordinal) twofold

ten (only in combination), i.e., -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth

“of every one of them a rod”

a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),

“thou every man's”

a 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)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“name”

an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character

“write”

to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“of every one of them a rod”

a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),