King James Version
Numbers 18:31 in the King James Version says “And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of ...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.”
Numbers 18:31 · KJV
Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. best: Heb. fat
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. best: Heb. fat
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
KJV Study — Public Domain
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)
“it in every place”
H4725properly, a standing, i.e., a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
“ye and your households”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for it is your reward”
H7939payment of contract; concretely, salary, fare, maintenance; by implication, compensation, benefit
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
“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
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