King James Version
Numbers 20:22 in the King James Version says “And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.”
Numbers 20:22 · KJV
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. word: Heb. mouth
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“journeyed”
H5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e., start on a journey
“And the children”
H1121a 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”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“even the whole congregation”
H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
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