King James Version
Numbers 3:34 in the King James Version says “And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six th...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.”
Numbers 3:34 · KJV
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.
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto, under: Heb. the office of the charge
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And those that were numbered”
H6485to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc
“of them according to the number”
H4557a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“of all the males”
H2145properly, remembered, i.e., a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
“old”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and upward”
H4605properly,the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc
“were six”
H8337six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal, sixth
“thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
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