King James Version
Numbers 26:6 in the King James Version says “Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.”
Numbers 26:6 · KJV
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
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“the family”
H4940a family, i.e., circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people
“the family”
H4940a family, i.e., circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people
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