King James Version
“Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. done: Heb. diminished”
Numbers 27:4 · KJV
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. done: Heb. diminished
And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“be done away”
H1639to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
“Why should the name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
“of our father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“his 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
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“because he hath no son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“unto us therefore a possession”
H272something seized, i.e., a possession (especially of land)
“the brethren”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
“of our father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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