King James Version
Numbers 3:30 in the King James Version says “And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.” — 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 families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.”
Numbers 3:30 · KJV
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
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.)
“of the families”
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 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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