King James Version
Numbers 23:16 in the King James Version says “And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.”
Numbers 23:16 · KJV
And he brought him into the field of Zophim , to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. Pisgah: or, the hill
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“met”
H7136to light upon (chiefly by accident); specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
“And the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“and put”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“a word”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“in his mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
“Go again”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
properly, like this, i.e., by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now
“and say”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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