King James Version
Numbers 26:51 in the King James Version says “These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.”
Numbers 26:51 · KJV
Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“These were the numbered”
H6485to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc
“of 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
“six”
H8337six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal, sixth
“and a thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“and a thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“seven”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
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