King James Version
Numbers 23:6 in the King James Version says “And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.”
Numbers 23:6 · KJV
And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And he returned”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“unto him and lo he stood”
H5324to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“by his burnt sacrifice”
H5930a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
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
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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