King James Version
Numbers 3:24 in the King James Version says “And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.”
Numbers 3:24 · KJV
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the chief”
H5387properly, an exalted one, i.e., a king or sheik; also a rising mist
“of the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“the 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
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